[AndyJackson]

So this expert on Viking culture tells us that everything we know about the Vikings is wrong and he is an expert and so he knows it is wrong.

And positive things about Vikings are wrong because “modern portrayals of pre-Christian paganism often overlook its darker sides, including the violence and devastation caused by Viking raids” a fact that perhaps only this Herr Doktor Professor the high expert Scheel needs to remind himself of because all of the rest of us know this from watching Vikings and the Last Kingdom.

How about telling us what things about Vikings are true that we need to know about, like most of them were actually farmers, or that they were great seafarers and great traders as well as raiders or that for better or worse the Swedish Vikings went east and down to Constantinople and were the founders of the Kiev Rus who became the modern Russians. Or became the Normans, the smart ones of whom decided to screw the cold weather shit and take over Sicily.

Or discreditable things like that.

[Red Badger]

Everything I know about Vikings I learned from watching "The 13th Warrior".........

[Chainmail]

Ah, the poor, misinterpreted, misunderstood Vikings! Luckily we have a historian who finally gets rid of all that Christian propaganda - and the record of raiding, stealing, pillaging, enslaving, rape and slaughter - and sets us straight.

Whew!