Vikings are the Klingons of fantasy.
Discuss.
Not seeing it, sorry.
>>44882639
Honor-driven warrior culture. Constantly causing trouble for weaker empires because of how aggressive they are. Cool armor.
History, not fantasy. Vikings are (were) real.
>>44882715
>Vikings
>Honor-driven warrior culture
>Honor-driven
>>44882715
I think you meant to say klingons are samurai. look at their weird weapons, armour, foreheads, and honor-driven culture that causes trouble for neighbours.
>>44882610
Vikings were real m8. I think you mean klingons are the Vikings of Scifi. And yes it fits, since klingons went about acting like back stabbing little shits while constantly going on about "muh honor"
>>44882715
>Attack peasants and fishermen
>run away unless you vastly outnumber the enemy
Vikings warrior master race
>>44882610
Klingons are better vikings than modern fictional vikings.
Every talks about how good they are but any time they're required to be relevant they get their arses handed to them.
Yeah, sounds about right
>>44882610
Man I need to catch up on Vikings, that shit was fun as fuckNo I don't have a mancrush on Rollo why do you ask
Why are Vikings so popular?
Boring and overrated/10
>>44882715
>Honor-driven warrior culture
Profit-driven you mean. Vikings were scandinavian pirates, that's about it. Also, same people were traders at different times.
>Constantly causing trouble for weaker empires because of how aggressive they are
What "weaker empires"? Weaker than whom?
And they mostly bothered unprotected settlements unaffiliated with any empires. Shit's just easier.
>Cool armor.
Quilted vests. Soooo cooool.
>>44882715
>Honor-driven warrior culture
90% of their attacks to south countries were sea-to-land raids to farms and shit. they carefully avoided places with fighting personnel. pretty honorale uh
>constantly causing trouble
the reason they lasyed so long is exactly the reverse: since they attacked mostly the enormous holy roman empire, taking offensive action aganist them would have been a hassle so fuckhuge nobody gave a fuck, and sent missionaries instead
>Cool armor
this is your death blow. they wore no fucking armor. if you're referring to horned helmets, they're an invention
real vikings were nothing else than snow pirate niggers, and this recent revisionism about them is seriously pathetic
>>44883390
because vikings in fiction are the epitome of the "noble savage". wich is fine and dandy, but only until you donàt start trying to make them look cool when they attacked and raped random people to syeal their crops.
>>44883475
>but only until you donàt start trying to make them look cool when they attacked and raped random people to syeal their crops.
This is for you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJqEKYbh-LU
>>44883263
>that shit was fun as fuck
>mud-dirty male underwear models with hipster beard and leather pants sweating togheter with other men to assess their dominance
no homo bro, its just fun as fuck
>>44883543
y-you too
reminder that the idea of the "noble savage" was invented by Victorian era writers and has no basis in fact
inb4
>muh bushido
>>44883460
>same people were traders at different times.
Usually right before they and their cousins were sneaking up the river to rob the people they traded with, after casing the joint. So honorable, you guys!
The closest they got to "honor" was when two of their gang leaders got so mad at each other that they had two of their other guys fight it out.
>>44883597
Actually its older, Marco Polo and others gave the root of it in fiction or not
>>44883629
>Marco Polo
That show could have been so great. The costume, set design and prop departments and the tons of Asian extras were wasted on it.
Mongol warrior princess is best princess.
>>44883613
>The closest they got to "honor" was when two of their gang leaders got so mad at each other that they had two of their other guys fight it out
I'm so fucking laughing.
"I AM GRIMNAR, SON OF OLAF! BEFORE THE BLOOD OF MY FAMILY AND THE ALL'SEEING BLUE EYE OF ODIN I SWEAR TO CLEANSE MY HONOR WITH YOUR BLOOD! you go Erik."
>>44883646
>set design and prop departments
You mean they did a Polo tv series?
probably some people thinks I'm losing by not watching any tv, but I actually feel like I'm avoiding a sea of disappointments. these new shows look all the same kind of lame. probably the best decision I did in my life after quitting smoking
>>44883787
Netflix did, yes
It wasn't all that good, but it looked fucking phenomenal.
>>44883694
Lol, that's pretty good, but why does this seem strange to people?
The conventions of trial by combat or justice by combat, and of having champions is something many european cultures had. This almost invariably led to having champions fight for your honour. The brits have an official gauntlet thrower who throws down the gauntlet to challenge anyone one who has a problem with the king to a fight.
>>44883828
Its funny because it completely destroys the honor warrior society concept.
>>44882610
Read about the Assyrians they are Klingons with no honor
>>44883867
I'm sure Khorne liked assyrians with their neat orderly piles of skulls besides the streets.
>>44883123
>Vikings were real m8.
Not really. Common perception of vikings as those honorable uber badasses in horned helmets is as real as pixies and basilisks.
>>44882715
>>44882610
knowing this little about viking lol
>>44883856
Well, that's why you have honor codes like code of chivalry or bushido.
But even those were rules-lawered or outright ignored on a regular basis
>>44883937
Exactly, its perfectly justifiable in chivalry and bushido, but not in the kind of viking majority of people have in mind
This is the worst thread on /tg/.
>>44883814
You don't speak for me!
>>44882610
Perhaps. But they are far from the Klingons of history.
I'm not sure if there even is a "Klingons of history".
>>44882830
sure, but most "Vikings" in popular culture are fantasy
>>44883976
yeah the modern viking ideal has everything to do with a bunch of /pol/ types doing their version of we wuz kings
historically, the vikings were completely indistinguishable from any other bunch of inbred fishermen whose reaction when there wasn't enough fish was "oh shit maybe if we raid another fishing village far enough away from us we might be able to not starve. plus there's no way they'll be able to track us back home."
the only reason history remembers them at all is that English monks recorded that every once in a while some scary foreigners dropped by to steal their shit. when english fishing villages went raiding that was, y'know. just something that happened. when FOREIGNERS went raiding, well, they must be horrifying supermen, otherwise we would have found a way to fight them off, right
>>44883914
Don't forget shieldmaidens
>>44882610
I believe you are looking for the term Orcs, Orcs are the "Klingons" of fantasy, at least some iterations of them are. The warlike less advanced race who claims to be honorable but usually isnt and gets pissy at just about anything like a bunch of thugs, also bigger and stronger, and look funny.
>>44884286
You are right, but it is important to make the distinction between viking raids and norseman/danish raids.
These two things often get blended together in modern portrayals of vikings.
For example the show vikings is not about vikings. It's about... Norwegian(? I can't remember who was trying to settle what at that time) invaders.
>>44884286
basically the only thing separating the English from being remembered as a martial culture of seafaring barbarians is that the Industrial Revolution happened in England and not Norway.
>>44884373
yeah, the Danish kingdoms raiding was a different game, but the same principle of "they're a horrifying seafaring warrior culture and we definitely aren't basing this on the fact the only Danes the people who can write in English ever see are seafaring warriors" applies.
>>44884463
and french, and german.
The danes were quite fond of raiding the french and the HRE and occasionally trying to settle the north coast.
>>44882610
Meme vikings are the klingons of fantasy.
Discussed.
Can I have my shield-maiden pinup now?
Originally they were just Space Russians.
>>44884259
Most anything in popular culture are fantasy. America is not the greatest nation in the world. America includes more than just the US. Most cowboys were pig rapists, people too dumb to do anything more demanding than watching cows and suffering for a living, murderers who couldent live anywhere more civilized, or the people who hunted and murdered the pig rapists and murderers.
The Samurai had no honor to speak of. Some of them were loyal to their lords, but most of the ones we remember went around stabbing people in the back, breaking oaths, killing their lawful rulers, killing their subjects for no reason, or shitting on other religions because it was fun. One of the most reviled men in the history of samurai was Oda Nobunaga, and he basically did none of the above and so everyone hated him.
China is a distopean nightmare at pretty much any point in their history. Including present day.
Most people in the middle east are nice. They just have no concept of going against anyone who says they know what god wants from us.
Just because vikings were not actually living gods doesn't mean there isn't some cool history there.
>>44886106
>America includes more than just the US.
Nice try, Brazil.
>>44883529
Thanks for turning me on this, great stuff!
>>44886106
>America is not the greatest nation in the world.
>>44886233
Lots of people have freedom. Most of Europe has freedom. Japan has freedom. GREECE has fucking freedom, and they dont have SHIT.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFuvLnG6rKw
>>44884314
Ehhh, we got concrete evidence for their existence in 2015- just dont know how widespread it was.
>>44886233
Only as long as we can export that one vital commodity no other country produces.
Dollars.
Seriously, that's all which prevents our fall, a cushion of dollars.
>>44886233
KEK "freedom" what do you even know about that
>>44886106
>eople too dumb to do anything more demanding than watching cows and suffering for a living
>farming isn't demanding
Look at this fucking guy
>>44886437
No, we got a woman who shared a grave with weapons
>>44883475
>I think OP was talking about media misrepresentation of Vikings, which suffer from largely the same misconceptions that you are arguing against right there.
>>44888150
Farming isnt being a cowboy.
>>44885924
Actually, yeah. There's not a lot i common between Klingons in TOS and TNG. How did that happen?
>>44883026
You have never read any Icelander sagas.
No, not seeing it. Klingons were based upon the Soviet Union.
>>44883543
He he he.
The only person I know who watches the show is very obviously stuck in the closet. Actually, given how much he looks like an overweight woman he might even be a pre-op transsexual.
>>44890317
>having folklor about honor makes a bunch of raiders honor-driven
>>44882610
>Discuss.
You have to be a trecky to get something so fuck bassackward.
Also no.
>>44891775
Honor was very important in all ancient societies, and especially on Iceland. If someone insulted your honor and you did nothing about it that was a sign of weakness and an open invitation for anyone to take your stuff.
>>44886302
>GREECE has fucking freedom, and they dont have SHIT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTHRg_iSWzM&feature=youtu.be&t=48s
>>44889732
The end of the Cold War, I wager. Undiscovered Country was a metaphor for it.
>>44891889
>Honor was very important in all ancient societies
>especially on Iceland
>>44886233
>>44886302
USA isn't even in the top 10 of most free economies.
http://www.heritage.org/index/ranking
>>44883026
>>44891775
>>44891965
Why the fuck would you have all these homoporno pics? Are you some kinda fag?
>>44892001
>not liking based smug salad guys
What's wrong with you?
>>44892011
Not being a fag.
>>44882715
Oh you're just stupid; ok that explains a lot.
>>44882715
You should totally tell >>>/his/ all about how awesome the vikings were. I'm sure they'd love to hear it.
>>44892067
>being triggered by guys with salad
>>44882610
Vikings are the traders/ pirates of norway.
>>44886233
Only country in the world that needs to keep saying how free it is. Just saying.
>>44886233
America the best best two continents the ever were.
>>44892001
Yes he is probably gay.So?
>>44892067
First time on /tg/ for 4 months and first thing I see is all these naked dudes, WTF happened to you guys....? I'm off again.
>>44891889
That is like saying slav transgenerational blood feuds are a sign of honorable society.
>>44892001
How do you know they're from gay porn?
>>44892710
>not knowing /tg/ has always stood for /totally gay/
Seeya, newfag
>>44892710
Business as usual newfag. Just working the homoeroticism out of our systems, one delicious moist chisled set of abs at a time.
>>44892710
>Not being attracted exclusively to chiseled abs
>Thinking women, could ever pleasure a man, in any way close to resembling what another man could do to him
I don't know what to tell you anon, you might have caught a bad case of the cooties, i recommend a long and heavy session spend masturbating to satyrs to get properly acclimatized to /tg/ once more
here's a handsome man to get you started
>>44892712
It is. It's just not the same honor as the one you think of because of modern associations.
>>44892710
>2016
>not liking buff dudes
What, are you some kind of faggot?
>>44882610
>Klingons are trader, explorers, merchenaries and the Frenchmen who made the English not French
Checks out.
>>44892710
>Counting the months
You'll be back
>>44882610
Eh.
>Violent warrior culture.
>Has some general rules of conduct considered important, but pretty chill with breaking those rules when it's to their advantage.
>Consider skill at personal combat important, but not stupid enough to just let the best sword fighter lead them.
>Think little of dying in battle, but try to pick fights that they know they will win and run from fights they think they will lose.
Honestly, seems pretty on point to me. I think the biggest difference is Vikings wouldn't talk up their honor quite as much and would point more to good track records for certain leaders than anything else. "Sven the Bloody sacked three villages in a row last summer and brought home his weight in silver! We should follow him!" vs. "Galrosh is the most honorable Klingon ever! None can compare to his bravery! Now let's secretly murder everyone he doesn't like and blame the humans."
>>44891349
Cardassians were based upon the Soviets, not Klingons.
>>44893785
Pretty sure Vikings had no code of honour or anything like that. Every human society has "some general rules of conduct" as an unwritten situational thing; far fewer try to make some kind of code of it.
>>44895225
IIRC the Klingons were based on the Soviets (militaristic, confrontational and the federatioons natural enemies, but not really evil), which is why they used stealth ships from the beginning: It is essentially american cruisers vs. russian subs IN SPACE.
Romulans were more meant to be Chinese (Asian inspired, more political then anything) but had every cold -war trope they could no longer foist on the Klingons loaded over them, and Cardassians were more meant to be North-Korea (in the time when they werent the laughingstock of the enitre globe) mixed with Nazii germany, but they are basically every totalitarian regime ever.
>>44895377
>Soviets
>confrontational
Yo what?
>>44883914
Where are you even from?
Here in the UK, everyone but the youngest schoolchild knows that the vikings didn't have horns on their helmets (except for ceremonial purposes) and that they were vicious raiders who sacked largely defenseless settlements and monasteries, or conquered already-weakened kingdoms. I've never met a single person who thought them 'honourable'; just brutal!
What most people DON'T appreciate is their legal system, or the fact that they were far-reaching traders, or ASTONISHING sailors, or actually fairly disciplined for a stereotypical 'barbarian' people.
>>44895428
Trading with between the middle east and scandinavia by sailing up-and-down rivers in eastern europe will never stop impressing me.
>>44896068
It's the rune graffiti in the Hagia Sophia that blow me away.
>>44896394
A Norwegian coin was found in a Mayan offering pit/well.
>>44896491
I need sauce on that
>>44896491
If you mean this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maine_penny
It was in Maine, not the Mayan empire
>>44896535
I remembered it wrong. Sorry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maine_penny
>>44886233
They have the greatest weight, I give you that.
>>44896394
Eh, not that mind blowing really. The Varangian Guard were required to accompany the Emperor to the church. The little graffiti that is there is the work of two separate people, the first is a name followed by meaningless scribbles, likely because the person had only learned to spell his own name and nothing else but wanted to make the text look longer, and the second is the beginning of a sentence that is abruptly canceled, likely because someone caught him writing it. They were simply bodyguards on duty, bored out of their minds.
>>44895406
What the fuck do you think the Cuban Missile Crisis was?
>>44896394
There's a reason people called them Vandals.
>>44882658
>>44882658
>tumblr
>female vikings
>>44897543
The Vandals were a different group.
>>44897670
>>44897543
The Vandals were also centuries earlier than the Vikings and never threatened the Eastern Empire; just the west.
>>44893636
They always come back.
Okay, we all agreed that overall vikings as real people were less or more shitty like everyone untouched by roman empire.
but let me state that their lore (after being retconned by Sturluson, ok) is really neat?
>>44899035
...nevermind that question mark.
>>44898935
The only reason I always come back to /tg/ is because as soon as I find a board that I like it turns to shit just a few weeks later, and everytime I ask myself
>Why did I leave /tg/? It was nice there. We talked about Magic, and RPGs, and character builds, and when we didn't argue over which system was best we argued over which edition of a particular system was best. Fuck, I hate every single one of them, but I miss them. Even that one guy with his naked smug salad men.
And I return, and everything is good until the cycle repeats itself and I decide to leave again for the next board that promises me even more greatness.
>>44883026
>>44891775
>>44891965
>>44892011
>>44892146
Is someone breaking the balance of the universe, again?
>>44899354
No.
>>44900672
....Really?
>>44882610
>some element of human history is actually based on a fictional alien race.
You're a retarded shitposter. Discuss.
>>44886106
>America includes more than just the US.
>Vikings are the warrior tribe of white people
every peoples have their vikings. vikings are just popular because they lasted longer than other retarded pagans because they lived in the shitty land no one wanted until all the good land was already taken and oil was discovered.
I can't wait for multicultuarism to kill off the viking meme forever.
>>44901185
I am waiting for vikings to kill you.
>>44900858
Maybe
>>44897493
>OMG somebody is pointing less than ten missiles at us, we better almost start a fucking nuclear war as long as it will still hit everybody but us.
>>44897003
Mexico is the first on obesity rates IIRC
>>44892715
uhooooooooooh
>>44901700
You are now under watch... be very careful...
>>44882715
If we're talking historical vikings here and not fantasy, I'm going to throw in my two scillingas
>Honor-driven warrior culture
In their art, yes. What texts we have surviving really emphasise this. Beowulf's death is mostly because he refuses to let his Thanes fight alongside him because muh honour. However in practise? They were profit driven, or rather desperation driven. Scandinavia is a shitty place to grow crops and has few natural resources. As for warrior culture? Warriors were valued, yes. But those warriors became farmers and fishermen the moment they were back home. It wasn't until the Great Heathen Army that the Scandinavians had anything resembling a standing army formed of warriors, aside from Thanes to lords (and even then they were mostly aides rather than warriors).
>Causing trouble for weaker empires
I'd hate to be the one to tell you this, but raiding a bunch of fucking monasteries on an island absorbed by infighting isn't really preying on weaker empires. You could argue that with the shit precluding the Danelaw then they were, but that wasn't so much 'causing trouble' more 'oh my god our land is terrible why don't we just go settle in a place where the weather is actually decent once in a while and there's a better quality of life'.
>Cool armor
No better than anything else at the time. The idea of chainmail clad warriors leaping from longboats is pretty much a work of fiction. Metal was expensive (there's a reason axes were more common than swords -- the metal was so expensive it made the swords the reserve of the nobility as they needed more metal to make the blade). Only lords, and perhaps notable Thanes would have had anything resembling the armour we're used to. As with most groups at the time, troops were expected to provide their own equipment and if you're just Bjorn Bjornsson from the farm down the road you're going to go raiding with your cloth shirt and your axe.
>>44886302
>newsroom
dear god /tg/ is so cucked it hurts
>>44883026
Dude.
>Doesn't know about the great Danish/Heathen army
>Doesn't know about their punishment of rapists.
>Doesn't know about their lore keepers
>Hasn't read the sagas.
Dudes were focused on honor, as are most warrior cultures.
For examples we have republican Romans, the Mamluks (Furusiyya), the Prussian soldiery (Prussian virtues), Samurai (Bushido), and so on.
>>44883475
>90% of their attacks to south countries were sea-to-land raids to farms and shit. they carefully avoided places with fighting personnel. pretty honorale uh
Yeah, I mean when they conquered the Rus, or when they sacked Paris, or when they established the Danelaw by beating the shit out of all of England except for Wessex.
That was all just fighting farmers, right?
>the reason they lasyed so long is exactly the reverse: since they attacked mostly the enormous holy roman empire, taking offensive action aganist them would have been a hassle so fuckhuge nobody gave a fuck, and sent missionaries instead
In general, Denmark didn't get much involved in Imperial politics until Valdemar II, Sweden stayed out of it largely until the reformation, and Norway never got involved.
>>44907037
>However in practise? They were profit driven, or rather desperation driven. Scandinavia is a shitty place to grow crops and has few natural resources. As for warrior culture? Warriors were valued, yes. But those warriors became farmers and fishermen the moment they were back home. It wasn't until the Great Heathen Army that the Scandinavians had anything resembling a standing army formed of warriors, aside from Thanes to lords (and even then they were mostly aides rather than warriors).
That's a bullshit counter argument to the notion that vikings were a warrior culture of any kind.
The great heathen army is part of the kickoff to the viking era.
I mean even then, you're still ignoring just how much the Norse in general fought each other.
This transition from warrior to farmer that you speak of just plain didn't happen, the farmer was still a warrior, and was expected to fight for his clan, his lord, or his honor if it was required. We see as much evidence of norse warfare in Scandinavia as we do outside of it, and even more if we look at the sagas. Likewise of course, the warrior was still a farmer.
Very few people wwere just a warrior, Scandinavian conditions simply did not allow for a significant part of the population to just straight up do nothing but murder each other, they had to create food between the murder session, but the same exact shit applies to the Roman legions.
Also, of course, the great heathen army was not a standing army, the vikings were never a standing army, Scandinavia didn't get an actual standing military until the reformation (And I believe Sweden kicked that off) which pretty quickly became abandoned until the Napoleonic era (Denmark got really super screwed by not having its navy be prepared for example),
I don't know why this anti-viking force is so strong on /tg/, but it'd be much more effective if they knew what the fuck they were talking about.
>>44901185
There were Polish and Russian Vikings so they were all white.
>>44908835
>weren't
>>44883475
You forgot the part about child and baby killing!
>>44882610
Seeing as vikings actually existed, I'd have to disagree, bro.
>>44882610
But the Federation was communist and the Klingons were supposed to be Americans. So does that mean vikings = Americans?
>>44911233
According to Minnesota, yes.
>>44911139
nah, the version most of us heard about literally never existed
the only reason the image of the vikings as mighty warriors is a thing is that the only english-language records of them is of FEARSOME TERRIFYING WARRIORS who killed a bunch of civilians near the local monastery and then ran the fuck away before anyone capable of fighting back showed up.
the only difference between the vikings and modern-day Somali pirates is that the fishing's probably a little better in Somali waters and so they don't have to go on desperation raids as often.
>>44901305
good luck, I'm behind the only thing the vikings are more terrified of than a fish harvest bad enough they had to go raiding
being more than five hundred feet inland
>>44882610
Romulans are more Viking. Vikings were brutal raiders and devious traders expanding an empire that only used honer at its convenience.
Klingons are Mongols.
>>44897003
By percentage of the population? Or by actual numbers?
>>44902443
You know more and more world powers are now admitting that nuclear weapons are fucking retarded.
>>44901185
Levonian pagans lasted longer. The Vikings weren't even that competent when it came combat and often got their asses handed to them. The conquest of England was a military campaign undertaken by the king of Denmark, not really the same thing.
The main reason vikings became so popular was because Scandinavian national romanticism in the 19th century, well, romanticized the fuck out of them.
>>44886233
>NSA is spying on you
>It's okay we have guns
>Democracy is a joke
>It's okay we have guns
>Getting treatement for any injury or illness cost a leg
>It's okay we have guns
>Cops are actual cold blooded killers from being constantly in contact with gun wielding maniacs
>It's okay we have guns
Vikings were weird with honor. They were pirates and shit traders, but they were awesome to each other.
Also have in mind Greenland exist because a faggot was evicted, started spreading rumors about how awesome his new settlement was, and the idiots that fell for it were to proud to leave that suicide-inducing chunk of ice and frozen shit.
>>44915227
>They were pirates
Yes. That's exactly what the word means. A norseman going into viking literally meant that he went out on a ship to raid.
>suicide-inducing chunk of ice and frozen shit
Not true. At the time the Norsemen found Greenland it actually was a green and fertile land.
>>44907583
>Dudes were focused on honor, as are most warrior cultures.
>Romans, the Mamluks (Furusiyya), the Prussian soldiery (Prussian virtues), Samurai (Bushido)
>folklor as an example
>>44884358
the Jem'Hadar are Star Trek's Orcs
>>44889732
TMP
>>44911233
But Ferengi are Americans.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv8I5BcfvAs
>>44912969
>Mongols
>honor
>>44907583
>Doesn't know about their punishment of rapists.
For their own women. They were still rapists. Also the vikings were specifically those who went raiding, it was like a part time job title. Are you trying to attribute their laws, that held during peace time and applied to their own lands, to the one who broke peace AWAY from their own lands?
>Doesn't know about their lore keepers
People telling stories are just that. They're people who tell stories. They were practically monks without the centralisation, which when it comes to standardising historical accounts makes them inferior.
>Hasn't read the sagas.
Great. More stories. Does this mean that every european king should be praised as heroes because they all had the divine right?
>warrior cultures.
Raiding does not a culture make.
>Samurai (Bushido), and so on.
Were you not aware that Bushido is a straight up work of fiction, the romanticised image for which was penned some time in the past 200 years?
>sacked Paris
You mean when they caught the plague and got exposed to Christianity for the first time, eventually dooming their entire religion and even way of life once Hardrada finally snuffed it within 2 centuries?
>or when they established the Danelaw by beating the shit out of all of England except for Wessex.
Look at history. England staraight up isn't relevant to anything before Alfred the Great. Conquering the Heptarchy is nothing to brag about.
>That was all just fighting farmers, right?
Well, yes. Obviously. Why do you think they were attacking England in the first place? Because they wanted fertile land to settle and farm. Sure, it was rainy but they stood a better chance with it than they did the Franks. Not all of them could be as irritating as Rollo
>>44886302
All of those countries have hate speech laws, fuck off kike.
>>44916946
>Raiding does not a culture make.
I mean...
It does.
>Were you not aware that Bushido is a straight up work of fiction, the romanticised image for which was penned some time in the past 200 years?
Of course that's not true.
Bushido, as we know it, is largely fiction, but honor codes that inspired bushido, which we refer to as bushido in historical contexts for simplicity's sake,existed and have existed since the Heian period (Which puts it prior to samurai).
True it only becomes recognizable as what we know as bushido during the Tokugawa bakufu, but to deny the prior influences is to be historically illiterate.
Which I suspect you are.
>For their own women. They were still rapists. Also the vikings were specifically those who went raiding, it was like a part time job title. Are you trying to attribute their laws, that held during peace time and applied to their own lands, to the one who broke peace AWAY from their own lands?
We have found literally, and I do mean literally, no indication that there were separate laws for vikings. On the contrary we know the law codes they established in Ireland and England were reminiscent of the ones they used at home.
>Well, yes. Obviously. Why do you think they were attacking England in the first place? Because they wanted fertile land to settle and farm. Sure, it was rainy but they stood a better chance with it than they did the Franks. Not all of them could be as irritating as Rollo
Rollo was not "irritating", Rollo was brought in to rule Normandy because his forces were sufficient to end a civil war.
>>44918929
>historically illiterate.
>Which I suspect you are.
Cute, but I'm not the one who thought that vikings weren't farmers while talking specifically about the time they invaded England to settle and become farmers. With farms and farming and other things that people tend to have when they're interested in being farmers.
>>44919116
Okay, so you are also actually illiterate.
Read what I wrote before you respond.
>>44919292
It seems that I did indeed misread your initial post, my apologies. Why not tell us the aspects of their "warrior" culture that made them distinct from non warrior cultures? Obviously the majority of posters here are only familiar with them performing sea based raids and beating the snot out of the Heptarchy. What did they actually do or have that made them particularly noteworthy?
