• whoops@hexbear.net
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          From my understanding, viking (as a verb) was when Norse fail-second-sons slaughtered, raped, looted, and enslaved coastal villages in order to establish their own fortune back home. That sucks.

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            Pretty much every ancient society had fail-son bands going around raiding shit, idk why the Norse get singled out for it any more than Gaels or Lakota or Scythians.

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              9 months ago

              Sure, but pop culture has confounded going viking with Norse culture at large.

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                  It bugs me that we only know the post-Christianization version of their religion. Hence Odin getting hung on a not-cross

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                    I was really sad when I learned that the story about a crossdressing Thor pretending to marry a Jotun is possibly a Christian parody made to ridicule and insult their competition.

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              Is it because they did it to the British and the French who were literate enough to write about it and ended up becoming powerful enough for their historical beefs to matter?

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        The same way Slavic anti-communists begged daddy Germany to come protec them from da evil commies, modern Slavic pagan Nazi nerds worship the gods of Germanic slavers.