This is just the difference between vikings on raids and vikings at home, except the hornet helmets
ScottaHemi on
Found America WAY before that slowpoke columbus.
wizardrous on
The show Norsemen found a happy medium between these two archetypes. It’s a really good and funny show.
Starchaser53 on
But everyone agrees that if they could, they WOULD have worn horned helmets
Nannyphone7 on
If you rape murder and pillage only 1% of the time, you are still a rapist, murderer and thief.
Hephaestus_God on
When do the dragons come into play?
Taliskerhu on
Everyone gotta have a more nuanced backstory nowadays. We all poets and had laws nowadays, we weren’t just “barbarians”. Everyone and they dog weren’t just pillagers, they were highly intricate societies.
Man get tf out with your soft girl era.
If you was Viking you bashed monks’ skulls, got that Danegeld and did blood eagles on people’s backs. You was a scary mf. That ain’t Gon change
Stuck_in_my_TV on
Viking (raiding) is a verb. A Dane, Swede, or Norman could go Viking. And one who went Viking is a Vikinger.
Due-Radio-4355 on
They’re portrayed as being hearth warriors when they sucked against literally anyone who wasn’t a helpless villager caught by surprise
CobaltKiller27 on
There’s no such thing as a “viking farmer” viking means raider. When on raids their job is viking, when at home their job is farmer. Viking is a job
MastaKink on
Mhmm
Living_Shadows on
But you realize the reading and pillaging is like the defining factor of what makes someone a Viking right?
EhMapleMoose on
Don’t forget that men could divorce their wives if they wore men’s clothing. Women could also divorce men if they wore effeminate clothing (showed too much of his chest).
The women also held the keys cause they had authority over food chests and rationed it accordingly.
Baron012 on
Oh no, vikings were very much the top one when they were out raiding, pillaging and raping.
Odd-Soup-5419 on
Nah, outside of the horned helmets, movies actually portrayed vikings accurately, that’s what they were doing during raids.
RebelGirl1323 on
Not all Norse are vikings and not all vikings are Norse. All Vikings are violent. It’s in the name. Most Norse were not vikings because they didn’t go viking.
JobintheCactus on
Remember, Viking is a job not a race.
Chairmanwowsaywhat on
*were still technically barbarians* and commited murder rape and pillage endlessly because viking wasn’t just all Norse people it was specifically the raiding people.
GundamGuy2255 on
I believe you mean Scandinavian, as Viking were just pirates.
Anonymoose_12345 on
Read this piece a while back. It mentioned that Vikings loved to raid churches, because, well, that’s where the money was. As a result, priests wrote a ton about how awful Vikings were. But guess what, there weren’t many other people writing books at the time and if they did, their work hasn’t survived. So here we are, with most of these stories about Vikings coming from their victims.
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This is just the difference between vikings on raids and vikings at home, except the hornet helmets
Found America WAY before that slowpoke columbus.
The show Norsemen found a happy medium between these two archetypes. It’s a really good and funny show.
But everyone agrees that if they could, they WOULD have worn horned helmets
If you rape murder and pillage only 1% of the time, you are still a rapist, murderer and thief.
When do the dragons come into play?
Everyone gotta have a more nuanced backstory nowadays. We all poets and had laws nowadays, we weren’t just “barbarians”. Everyone and they dog weren’t just pillagers, they were highly intricate societies.
Man get tf out with your soft girl era.
If you was Viking you bashed monks’ skulls, got that Danegeld and did blood eagles on people’s backs. You was a scary mf. That ain’t Gon change
Viking (raiding) is a verb. A Dane, Swede, or Norman could go Viking. And one who went Viking is a Vikinger.
They’re portrayed as being hearth warriors when they sucked against literally anyone who wasn’t a helpless villager caught by surprise
There’s no such thing as a “viking farmer” viking means raider. When on raids their job is viking, when at home their job is farmer. Viking is a job
Mhmm
But you realize the reading and pillaging is like the defining factor of what makes someone a Viking right?
Don’t forget that men could divorce their wives if they wore men’s clothing. Women could also divorce men if they wore effeminate clothing (showed too much of his chest).
The women also held the keys cause they had authority over food chests and rationed it accordingly.
Oh no, vikings were very much the top one when they were out raiding, pillaging and raping.
Nah, outside of the horned helmets, movies actually portrayed vikings accurately, that’s what they were doing during raids.
Not all Norse are vikings and not all vikings are Norse. All Vikings are violent. It’s in the name. Most Norse were not vikings because they didn’t go viking.
Remember, Viking is a job not a race.
*were still technically barbarians* and commited murder rape and pillage endlessly because viking wasn’t just all Norse people it was specifically the raiding people.
I believe you mean Scandinavian, as Viking were just pirates.
Read this piece a while back. It mentioned that Vikings loved to raid churches, because, well, that’s where the money was. As a result, priests wrote a ton about how awful Vikings were. But guess what, there weren’t many other people writing books at the time and if they did, their work hasn’t survived. So here we are, with most of these stories about Vikings coming from their victims.