Ah yes, the sophisticated culture of the North

>Although Viking warbands and armies for certain short periods could wield considerable political power in Continental Europe, their cultural impact, that is, the transfer of Scandinavian cultural elements to Continental milieus, was virtually nil.
>Certainly the cultural interaction was no one-way process. Scandinavia also influenced the Continent of Europe. Mainly, we must sadly contend that this influence was negative and destructive (Zettel 1977).
>The picture of the Vikings in the west also as carriers of economic initiative and culture is a grave misconception initiated as a positive model from the past some fifty years ago in the name of contemporary west European cooperation.

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  1. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    SOVL

  2. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >The picture of the Vikings in the west also as carriers of economic initiative and culture is a grave misconception initiated as a positive model from the past some fifty years ago in the name of contemporary west European cooperation.
    Finally someone says it out loud. Nobody needed the Vikangz to sell them shit (they only did that with loot they stole from other places to rulers too powerful to raid), merchants before and after did that in a far greater and more civil effort. Culturally, the Vikings only took in and gave back very little. Everywhere they became assimilated, started speaking the native languages in their areas of settlement within generations, universally took up Christianity in less than a century and only left token remnants in the vocabulary of English, barely anything anywhere else. Their discoveries of the Americas and Greenland became forgotten and their poetry never spread beyond the North Sea. Compared to them, even the Irish had a more profound influence on the culture of the middle ages

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      https://i.imgur.com/X3f7TKt.jpg

      >Although Viking warbands and armies for certain short periods could wield considerable political power in Continental Europe, their cultural impact, that is, the transfer of Scandinavian cultural elements to Continental milieus, was virtually nil.
      >Certainly the cultural interaction was no one-way process. Scandinavia also influenced the Continent of Europe. Mainly, we must sadly contend that this influence was negative and destructive (Zettel 1977).
      >The picture of the Vikings in the west also as carriers of economic initiative and culture is a grave misconception initiated as a positive model from the past some fifty years ago in the name of contemporary west European cooperation.

      Considering that other Europeans mostly didn't have boats, yes, they needed the Vikings to sell them shit.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Well, to be fair Old Norse influence on English was more than just "token", that would be more appropriate in reference to French where Vikings left a few loanwords through Normandy. I've also always found it fascinating that the name for the largest Slavic country and ethnicity is not an ethnonym but also comes from the Old Norse. But all this aside, it is basically true that Viking cultural influence on Europe was "virtually nil". Still, their culture, religion, and art are interesting subjects to study. When it comes to Germanic paganism then its Scandinavian branch is the main source of information(even if itself not very well attested). Icelandic medieval literary tradition is absolutely remarkable as well, no other small country on the "periphery" can claim anything similar.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Greenland wasn't abandoned right away, it lasted centuries, and during that time they were logging trees in Markland/Labrador.
      I don't think it's a coincidence that Columbus had been to Iceland, anon.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Yes, I think it is.

  3. 10 months ago
    Anonymous
    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Cope

  4. 10 months ago
    Anonymous
  5. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    they were soulful

  6. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    the viKANGZ were also very homosexual.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      drinking semen doesn’t make you gay. it’s a bit weird but not gay

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Don't look up what the israeli author of this book says on Jesus lmao.

  7. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    pragmatic, rational norsemen don't have to constantly preach their desert Black person religion and convert everyone into believing falsehoods to live a satisfying life

    >muh culchas

  8. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    you are currently posting on an anglo saxon cultural invention, in the anglo saxon cultural language, with an anglo saxon descendent

  9. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Looks like a problem of why did they assimilated so easily, and indeed it is. Just see how fast they got slavicized of all things after their conquest of northeastern europe

  10. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    There wasn't much culture to give that wasn't already there. Most western Euro's have a significant amount in common with one another in terms of material culture, social organization and life style.

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