Tall, strong and fierce warriors from harsh, mountainous lands second to none in battle and the terror of Europe.
Until you actually read about them
>172cm on average
>killed a bunch of unarmed farmers and monks then got stomped almost every time they met resistance
>aside from England they were more like a nuisance than actual threat
>oathbreakers and cowards
>only Norway is mountainous
also they raided DURING SUMMER
so stop fucking drawing them fighting in what looks like Siberia you dumb fucking retards
vikings were a meme people literally made up a combination of Conan with fantasy RPG bandit and think that's how the things were
>aside from England they were more like a nuisance than actual threat
Yet they occupied Paris, Raided Constantinople, French gave them Normandy, formed Russian states, conquered main Irish cities, occupied Brittany etc
Viking meme originates from 19th century romantic nationalism.
In their age, vikings were literally seen as Africans are today, or as good mercenary material (see Varangian Guard).
>>1294105
An awful lot of crosses on these "pagan" sheilds...
>>1294105
>he doesn't know about the varangian guard
>>1294118
>occupied Paris
Frenchmen were outnumbered and still lasted a few months before Charles the Fat bribed them to rek his opponents
>raided Constantinople
Never happened, they raided some piss poor villages on the way to Constantinople
>French gave them Normandy
Yeah, having more vassals is a bad idea
>conquered main Irish cities
Then they got BTFO
>>1294118
>conquered main Irish cities
lmao
Ireland didn't have any cities. The Vikings built trading posts which eventually became cities. The Vikings themselves were kicked out of all of these places apart from Dublin and Waterford.
The Vikings have a pretty poor track record in Ireland generally. They didn't really win any major battles and had basically been throttled out of the country 200 years after getting there.
>>1294105
You do realize though that 172cm of average height was tall as fuck for most Europeans who averaged around 160cm in most countries up until Industrial and Modern times?
>>1294144
>t-they outnumbered us it's unfair
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rus%27%E2%80%93Byzantine_War_(907)
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>>1294146
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Dublin
>>1294175
>Kicked out of all those places apart from Dublin and waterford
>Posts kingdom of Dublin
>All those vikingboos cherry picking a few battles
LMAO
>>1294194
>>complains about cherry picking and then posts an image that is the very definition of cherry picking.
lol
>>1294124
To be fair, the cross as a symbol predates christianity by many years.
>>1294118
>French gave them Normandy
Solely because Frankish monarchs understood that Paris could only be raided through the Seine, and that by bestowing Normandy (which is the mouth of the Seine) to the vikings, all raids would end because vikings wouldn't raid their own lands nor would allow other vikings to pass through the Seine.
Genius move in the end.
Also
>raiding Paris
Heh they didn't even the guts to fight the peasants that lived there. Only besieged them and would wait for the locals to grow tired of their shit and pay them to journey elsewhere.
>>1294151
No it was not ''tall as fuck'' even back then.
>>1294169
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Paris_(885%E2%80%9386)
retard
>>1294200
Name some significant viking military feats.
>>1294200
>Big collection of sources vs posting single ones
Nah
>>1294175
>The Vikings themselves were kicked out of all of these places apart from Dublin and Waterford.
>Dublin
hurrrrrrrrrr
>all the vikingboo tears ITT
>>1294105
>>172cm on average
Pretty normal height for medieval peasants
>>1294287
Exactly. So they were not fucking giants as vikingboos think.
>>1294214
>Vikings granted passage of the Seine and 700 livres (pounds) of silver
French cucks PAID the vikings to raid France and breed french virgins
>>1294218
lol no, that image is cherry picked copy pasta from a asspained xtian. The norseaboos by contrast could care less about the whining of the people who got their shit stomped by viking pirates.
>>1294298
Such an achievement on viking side.
>>1294300
Name some of the people vikings stomped aside from monks.
>>1294306
You mean places they plundered?
http://dh.tcd.ie/clontarf/Viking%20Europe%20-%20Map%20of%20Viking%20Raids%20and%20Settlement
>>1294298
>muh dickkkk
>>1294322
>>1294322
>using trollface in 2016
I always knew vikingboos are underage.
>>1294300
>Complaining about xstians
>the only Vikings who ever managed to conquer all of England were Christians themselves
>Vikingboos will bullshit all day long about how über Christian Normans were Vikings
>>1294331
>>comparing norse in the early middle ages with modern blacks.
lol
>>1294300
Sweyn Forkbeard was a christian as well.
>>1294162
>Snowniggers can only win battles if they outnumber the enemy
Embarrassing.
Not to mention that the only record for this is on the Rus' side, so it might as well be fiction
>>1294105
>vikings were a meme people
>vikings were a people
Viking was a profession, not a nation or ethnic group. It basically meant raider or pirate. There was a Danish and Norwegian people, or Norse/Scandinavian people in general, but no Viking people.
>>1294205
>Only besieged them and would wait for the locals to grow tired of their shit and pay them to journey elsewhere.
Money and loot was the goal. Not conquest. The Vikings sacked cities instead of occupying them in general.
>>1294375
>defending niggotry in any time period
>>1294217
Destroying every single Anglo-Saxon kingdom save for Wessex.
>>1294340
My bad man, I meant to post this image.
>>1294401
>this is what snowniggers ACTUALLY believe
>>1294410
>map includes Norman conquests
Wow
>>1294105
The Vikings were farmers you fucking retarded idiot.
>>1294490
So maybe the farmers shouldn't be shilled as warriors you fucking retarded idiot besides swiss pikemen were originally a bunch of nobodies as well yet they were way more competent than memekings.
>>1294401
Just helped England unify desu
>>1294499
>So maybe the farmers shouldn't be shilled as warriors
Blame 18th century romantics then you sperg.
>>1294401
Then got kicked silly by the last.
Just to clarify, the anti-Viking meme on /his/ comes from a bunch of Polacks who are assblasted about /pol/ and think Viking = German, correct?
>>1294542
I am myself a Germanic and I just participate in it because I find the pro-viking meme really, really annoying and that I am a contrarian at heart.
>>1294124
>he doesn't know that literally every Christian symbol is pagan in origin
>>1294118
> conquered main Irish cities
They didn't, the conquered some parts of coast that then would go on to become major cities. The actual main Irish cities were largely inland and consistently under Gaelic rule until the Normans showed up.
Not long after they showed up however, the Vikings got absolutely put to shame by the Irish.
Why do Vikings cause so much whining and butthurt?
>>1294577
Good thing Christians worship Jesus not symbols.
>>1294585
t. protestant
>>1294589
Correct.
>>1294583
Probably some western European who took a DNA test that revealed their ancestor was raped by Scandis.
The vikings built Dublin
>>1294593
Wow that's very warrior like I'm sure they killed those bricks.
>>1294593
And lost it like a bunch of wimps.
The asspain is strong in this thread.
>>1294614
Vikings had no redeeming qualities as warriors that's why. They were great sailors and that's what people should focus on not muh Valhalla and heavy metal bullshit.
>>1294614
Literally nothing in their posts was even remotely butthurt though.
>The vikings were great warriors, look at those houses they built
>But that don't mean they were....
>HA HA HA, butthurt!
>>1294630
Did you even read the post
>>1294634
Did you
>>1294636
did
>>1294119
This is not true. There should be a word for what you just did. A word like "absurdly-comparing-pre-modern-northern-europeans-to-subsaharan-Africans-to-mock-northern-europeansism" but shorter.
>>1294634
This thread is about vikings being great warriors.
Both of this posts answered someone that said they built Dublin.
I don't really see what's wrong with any of them.
>>1294649
I dunno man I was trying to start a meme
>
>>1294105
>"We wuz warriors n shiet"
>every edgy teenager ever
Snowniggers, not even once.
>>1294675
>t. viking rape baby
just accept it and move on
vikings raped Christian Jewrope
it was the last instance of pagan pride, before Scandinavia was Jewed (Christianized)
stop crying about it
Threads like these are why /his/ is a shit board.
>>1294648
Why is it wrong?
Vikings were seen as Africans at that time.
>>1294688
But vikings converted to christianity retard.
>>1294688
If it was a clear showcase of pagan pride, why didn't the vikings mind raiding other pagans?
>>1294105
>It's another "/his/ throws down over vikings" episode
What the hell is it about vikings that makes them such a contentious topic here? Their battle prowess has obviously been exaggerated in folklore, but they still did other noteworthy things, like exploration, trade, and colonization. It's nothing you spergs need to freak out over, for fucks sake.
>>1294162
>The chronicle implies that it was the most successful military operation of the Kievan Rus' against the Byzantine Empire. Paradoxically, Greek sources do not mention it at all.
literally fabricated
>>1294711
Because the Finnish and Baltic pagans were even poorer then they were.
>>1294105
vikings are trash, not like that's something new
no /his/torian regards "vikings" highly
>>1294583
The Viking Age was the last stage of the Germanic Migration Period. People here are still mad at the Goths for sacking Rome. French are mad about the Franks.
>>1294719
King Cnut was a Christian, Vikingboos will often to always claim this is some big Christianity-pagan dichotomy, not some Nordic-Other people one.
>>1294688
whats the origin behind this meme?
>people unironically defending vikings on /his/
Is this for real, or some sort of /pol/ raid?
>>1294720
>We must protect ourselves against Christianity
>Let's go and raid our pagan brothers so they will be kept poor and defenseless against other Christians
>>1294731
Carl the cuck.
>>1294714
Because exploration and trade are not what makes a good warrior so they shouldn't be fucking compared to other warriors if their only achievements are not even related to warfare.
>>1294727
>Vikings can't be Christian
Interesting.
>>1294597
Literally every viking thread is some butthurt anon rambling about how sore his rectum is
What gives?
What makes people so mad?
>>1294744
According to vikinboos they can't though.
For them it's always some "Brave pagans fighting against Christianity" thing.
>>1294581
>Not long after they showed up however, the Vikings got absolutely put to shame by the Irish.
The Irish were finally able to take Dublin in the 12th century, long after the end of the Viking Age.
>>1294749
I don't care what Vikingboos do. The Vikings did conquer all of England until the Norman Conquest (descendants of the Vikings).
>>1294749
Who cares?
Sounds like crusaderfags and naziboos?
>>1294688
I am a kraut you snownigger lover. Viking genocide best day of my life. Karl the Great did literally nothing wrong.
I swear to God that you are probably American. I've been here two weeks and it's obvious you guys fetish them.
>>1294766
I didn't call the Normans Vikings. I called them descendants of the Vikings.
>>1294741
Okay, the comparisons aren't warranted, fair enough. I still don't see why we have to have a fucking thread about it everyday so you idiots can have an excuse to scream at each other over nothing. Maybe now that we've established that vikings were merely pirates for the umpteenth time this week, we can talk about other things they did, like traveling down the Volga to the Black sea.
>>1294766
You did say "The vikings didn't conquer England untill the Norman conquests" which strongly implies they were vikings in any way than just happening to have them as their forefathers.
>>1294746
I think it's because snowniggers never contributed anything to civilization. It's pure WEWUZ.
Reminder that they couldn't deal with BRIDGES in Frankia
fucking bridges were enough to stop them
not even a fortress
lmao
>>1294815
Except founding cities and building extensive trade routes
>>1294766
Cnut got the rest of non-danelaw England because of succession
>>1294718
>greeks to butthurt they tried to hide it
>>1294908
>snowniggers so shit they have to make things up
Vikings were shit.
>>1294105
>dudes without land, jobs, or a family; but who can fight, ruin things for everyone.
Where have I seen this before...
>>1295152
They can't fight either considering their track record.
>>1295152
detroit
>>1295166
>>terrorize europe for a hundred years and actually manage to take land occasionally from people who are wealthier and militarily stronger then you are
>>but they can't fight for some reason
lol
>>1294439
Cry moar, the normans were norse descendants who carried on the norse viking tradition of pragmatic militarism and raiding.
>>1295213
You mean terrorize monks? What a fucking achievement.
>>1295234
Rollo's son alone was 50% frankish...
>>1295234
Doesn't that mean the Vikings were Romans because they followed prgmatic militarism with raiding?
Or any other people using that method.
Because the Normans had a different culture, gender roles, religion, architectural type and military makeup than the vikings.
The Saxons at hastings had much much much more in common with the vikings at the times.
>>1295265
>Normandy
>England
>>1294105
wow haha XD!!
>>1294593
There was already a monastic settle there which they raided and then settled further up the mouth of the river next to an existing irish one which both eventually joined.
Similar story for most other Irish "viking" cities like Limerick
>>1295469
>>1294782
Nope.
>The Vikings did conquer all of England until the Norman Conquest (descendants of the Vikings).
How many times will we go through this dance?
>>1294695
>inb4ing the truth
>>1294130
Varangian guard weren't only people from Scandinavia. Was also comprised of english and russians
>>1294130
The Varangians were mostly Russian with some Saxons later on.
>>1295234
>norse viking tradition of pragmatic militarism
;p;p;p;p;p
>>1297178
the Rus were Norse migrants who got absolutely buttslammed by the Mongols.
>>1294105
>>1294105
>>1294105
Fucking this. Vikings were bluepilled cowards. Why do nu-male fedoras idolize them so much?
