Who Were The Vikings?

[Ulysses]

It's been supposed for a long time that the Vikings were genetically homogenous. You know, big, blond, blue-eyed warriors.

However I recently ran across this six minute BBC video that shows these assumptions are probably false, that the Vikings were in fact genetically diverse.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/reel/playlist/anc ... d=p0b2t4nr

Enjoy!

[neoplacebo]

The Vikings kicked ass. They were the original stompers. Some were so fierce it was said they fought in a trance like state of fury and were called Berserkers. And Led Zeppelin wrote a song about Vikings. They now live in Minnesota as a football team.

Ah-ah, ah!
Ah-ah, ah!
We come from the land of the ice and snow
From the midnight sun where the hot springs flow
The hammer of the gods
Will drive our ships to new lands
To fight the horde, sing and cry
Valhalla, I am coming
On we sweep with threshing oar
Our only goal will be the western shore
Ah-ah, ah!
Ah-ah, ah!
We come from the land of the ice and snow
From the midnight sun where the hot springs flow
How soft your fields so green
Can whisper tales of gore
Of how we calmed the tides of war
We are your overlords
On we sweep with threshing oar
Our only goal will be the western shore
So now you'd better stop and rebuild all your ruins
For peace and trust can win the day despite of all your losing

[O Really]

Well, for one, they didn't know they were "Vikings" as that is a name that others gave them long after they were gone.
There's a really good exhibit in York (England) one of the places where Vikings really lived.

https://www.jorvikvikingcentre.co.uk/

[O Really]

And Led Zeppelin wrote a song about Vikings.

Best played on an open road with the top down and the bass up.

[Vrede too]

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Po' widdle Useless fucks up by being rude to all, throws a butthurt tantrum about his fuckup being noticed, dishonestly claimed that his thin-skinned scolding was trying "to be nice", and now is so dickless about it that he's making every single post about me, through his childish signature.
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Thus, Useless chooses to wreck every thread he posts to with his insufferable whining, even ones he starts. What an infant! Every single other one of us has the spine to admit it when we've flubbed. Not Useless.

Fine by me, that's license for me to call him out regardless of the other content of his posts. He made his bed.

[Vrede too]

The Vikings ... now live in Minnesota as a football team....

They look pretty "genetically diverse" to me:
https://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/min/roster

[O Really]

The Vikings ... now live in Minnesota as a football team....

They look pretty "genetically diverse" to me:
https://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/min/roster

He's got the look, and he's got the name. Shoulda been a Viking.

[neoplacebo]

He now wears a suit and just talks about football with some other guy. And then you've got your pseudo Viking, the Q shaman. That pitiful bastard would never make it as a Viking. Hell, he has to have organic food catered into jail because he's so not tough.

[Ulysses]

He now wears a suit and just talks about football with some other guy. And then you've got your pseudo Viking, the Q shaman. That pitiful bastard would never make it as a Viking. Hell, he has to have organic food catered into jail because he's so not tough.

Yeah, the Q-Anon Shaman, as he has been called, or his real name, Jake Chansely (?) was a fairly pathetic, yet mildly entertaining act. He got a 41 month sentence for his efforts. I figure if he behaves himself he might get out in two years. I bet he shows up on some late night talk show.