They raped and blundered from the North Sea to the Black Sea.
Why are they still glorified as fierce warriors? Even Mongols have got worse reputation than them even though they were way more lenient towards their captured enemies if they surrendered peacefully.
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>Why are they still glorified as fierce warriors?
more like glorified as the proto niggers they were.
Indo european blood flowing through finnish veins.
caus mongols were responsible for more deaths but i see your point pekka
most "vikings" were traders and farmers
everyone who isnt a nomadic tribe is a cringelord
Because the Mongols lost and the Vikings won.
Hand over the taxes and Vikings would not kill you, only butthurt robbed priests who lived through viking attacks shitposted about them even if they were spared they were elft without what they robbed from peasants
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I'm not some gay nordicist but they also traded a lot, built cities in russia, sailed to america and supposedly bathed more often than christians, so they did some ok things.
no, it's a different job, when they could no longer trade and farm they became vikings
they were not regular taxes they were tributes kind of like modern extortion, they collected whenever they want and however much they want
4 months of the year in Sweden it snows.
Sane as taxes, if you did not pay taxes to nobility you would be killed the same, the Vikings desired wealth from the work of others same as the church or nobility.
over population and lack of trade goods
Crusaders were ISIS. Vikings were just somali immigrants.
you paid crops to the nobility, they don't kill peasants just because it's a bad harvest, that's hollywood propaganda
vikings were foreigners, they wanted gold, and slaves, peasants didn't have gold and they cannot afford to give away people for free
Swedish Vikings were peaceful and civilized. They even found Rus.
Nation builders they were.
It's okay when we do it, and I believe this completely unironically.
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If peasant refuses to give the tax of the grains to the nobility he would kill the peasant.
>that hairline
absolutely deserved it
we wuz vikangs
only a foreign lord or an invading lord who didn't care about the starvation of peasants
Yeah, I somewhat agree with. The Vikings from Sweden went through the lands of ancient Finnish tribes and thought "fuck this" and continued their journey to the east and south. They were more traders than anything else.
The Danish and Norwegians vikings were brutal barbarians though and we should not glorify them anymore than we glorify current terrorist organizations who kill civilians and extort locals for money, for example Boko Haram.
Not really youtu.be
>Vikings were the ISIS or Boko Haram of their time
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>Why are they still glorified as fierce warriors?
Because we enriched Europe with our aryan genes, that's why.
But jokes aside, the myth that vikings were primarily rapist and murderers is literally jewish-christian propaganda. Sure, we did raid some villages and control a huge part of England for a while, and we did war a little in the east, but vikings were primarily traders, farmers and explorers. We also protected the byzantine emperor and even ruskies have retconned their history to make it so vikings are the good guys.
Who cares, meme warriors. Almost everything about them in the media is pure fantasy.
WUZ
VIKANGS
Yeah, you enriched Europe by murdering local men and raping their women. Literally Boko Haram.
I'm pretty sure it's because the Nazis glorified the snowniggers and that just stuck in people's minds as some warrior meme.
no they raped the priests too. hard. in the ass.
Slave traders, yes. And trading plundered merchandise
Bathing more than early medieval Christians in England and Northern France is not some kind of a huge achievement. Northern and Western Europe in general was still a backwater back then.
Literally ISIS.
And these people are proud of them...
We didn't discriminate against sex, we raped both feminine men and women.
>NOOOOO YOU CAN'T SELL THE SPOILS OF WAR!!!!
Like any other country at the time. Also, I don't think I would talk too loud about slavery lol.