Always heard the claims Vikings reached America before Columbus; could be, but they left no trace.
Now, watching TVSeries "Vikings" it is surprisingh that, after the Vikings come into contact with continental Europe, centuries ahead of them in terms of evolution, they bring nothing back to the North, learn nothing and progress nothing... 15 years on, they are still living like monkeys.
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>but they left no trace.
wut?
No testimony... nothing...
Spain contributed nothing to humankind
>spaniards are so lazy they can't come up with proper bait
wut?
i guess you could say we didn't raid america like some uncivilized tribe, unlike spain
en.wikipedia.org
What testimony? Good luck interviewing the ghost of kang goatfucker bonesmasha
We built nice ships n shiet
Talking about the Vikings here, not what other have or have not contributed.
Every civilization, in contact with another one, specially if superior, does learn and take things for it to improve their own. These ones didn't.
what's more subhuman that your average nordic "viking"?
a ginger nordic "viking"
It seems they did have some concerns about human higene; more than most Europeans of that time,
is this why sweden is like africa these days?
Like Vikings raided England and Europe in a very "civilized" and educated manner... sacking and raping.
yeah we liked to take a bath while the rest of Europe smelled like shit
they did take though
they looted and killed every under defended coastline village and took everything they could haul back onto their getaway boats. Including slaves.
They still try to take Polish children away from us.
Africa is a whole different issue... anthropological reasons, basically.
>imblying your country didn't contribute Christianity
>imblying your country didn't contribute their governance
The Vikings gave us statehood. Thanks to the Swedes.
>Like Vikings raided England
That was the danes. We came in peace, just ask the irish and scots. They loved us
ahem... rurik was a finn
cuck
were Swedes the most civilized Vikangz?
russians are spawns of vikings
>rurik was a finn
Stupid Finnish propaganda.
>Jaakko Häkkinen with the University of Helsinki has later argued that the Rurikid N1c1 lineage can in fact be traced back to Scandinavia.
They wish.
There are no traces of it in Russian genes.
Definitive Northern Europe ranking of niceness of countries
1. Denmark
2. Finland
3. Sweden
4. Norway
5. Iceland
yeah well hauling ass on your trireme on its way to pillage and plunder a yuropean coastal village while going through a storm you'll take a good long shower like it or not.
>were Swedes the most civilized Vikangz?
Yes probably, bucuz they were no vikangz just ordinary goths
Jaakko can argue as he likes
Yes, most runes from vikings are in current day Sweden.
Danes were too fucking stupid to scribble something on stone even
>Norway, almost last
Okay that's it. We will bring back Elrubius. Who's gonna entertain you now scumbag!?!
Only northern Russians (living in Novgorod or Ladoga now) may be the descendants of the Vikings.
why are Swedes so superior to the rest of Scandinavia at almost every point in history? truly amazing in my view
Are you retarded? Viking culture obviously had its center in Denmark
aka, finns
That tv show isn't a documentary. Study real history.
Sorry I didn't like you guys in The Thing very much.
Sweden has always copied everything from us, even to this day. Their language is a retarded version of ours, their flag is a retarded version of ours and their society is a retarded version of ours. We basically civilized them
>Spaniards still being this butthurt that we discovered America before them
>Spaniard has no job so lashes out at those who do to try to salvage what´s left of his pride
swedes weren't vikangz sadly
they werent as superior back then as they are now
like a good wine, sweden only improves with age.
guess who descended from this motherfucker
Who knows, Denmark has always suffered from inferiority complex as is evident by the dane in this thread.
Honestly they cling so badly to vikangz because there's not much else in their history.
>the thing
We was the good guys, americans the stupid ones. Stupid americans shot a norwegian just becuse of a stupid dog which was an alien monster
Yes. And the Finns as well. But the Finns are the indigenous inhabitants of those places. Russians, Vikings and others -- strangers in those lands.
>sweden only improves with age.
Polynesians did it before you, mr. Wewuz
> Viking education
[citation needed]
We Iclanders left hundreds of farms in the New World and Greenland. Where are the Polynesian mainland settlements?
they shot him only because he was acting like a viking
TELL ME ANONS, HOW BASED WERE WE?
>Expel a uncivilized group of bandits from Norway, send them away in boats
>The bandits find new lands and calls it Iceland
>We find out about it and annex it, now it's Norway
>vikangz founded a ton of towns in dublin
>colonized iceland n shiet
>"fucking savages"
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Not quite impressing. Is it everything for 2-3 thousands years?
The shitty part
>danes sucks Napoleon's dick
>Napoleon loses
>Denmark-Norway union broken up by the allies
>The allies gives norwegian clay called Iceland to Denmark WTF
>Danes can brag about being explorers n shiet, finding Iceland
what makes you think that's everything?
No one here has ever mentioned anything else
But it does
Worst part
>Danes try as hard as they can to erase the icelandic language for good by forcing every child to learn danish at school
What the fuck was your problems potato sounding danes? Tried to erase a pretty language like the icelandic one for a butt ugly sounding danish one???
Lol Vikings got btfo by native stones. Polynesians left genetic evidence behind
We did it with you so why is it such a big deal when it comes to Iceland?
>Now, watching TVSeries "Vikings"
I stopped after 15 minutes into the first episode because of that horrible english they spoke with some kind of norwegian accent. My autism just cant handle that
Iceland glory days was when everyone was a neet raiding farms and raping inbred ugly anglo wymen all day.
Us too. But goldmines instead of farms and kuruminhas instead of anglo wymen.
We win.
Well norwegians was stupid as well. Tried to force the norwegian language (which isn't the real norwegian language anyway) over to the native samis. It did go well for a peroid before everything went downhill. Now they litterally owns us. youtube.com
>discovered america 500 years before columbus
>sail from canada (leif eriksson) to persia (ingvar the far-travelled)
>were given the land we know today as normandy, creating what we know as the normans
>muh north sea empire
>muh rurik, muh rus' (ffs even the name "russia" is norse in origin)
>were the bodyguards of the roman emperors
>traded with everyone, from inuits to buddhists
>founded dem towns in the british isles, colonized quite a bit
i mean, why does saying things like this cause so much butthurt? sacking a few monasteries/ towns were hardly out of the ordinary back then
Why would anyone even want Poolish children?
>Viking culture obviously had its center in Denmark
>Sweden
>Superior
If Sweden had played their cards right they could have unified Scandinavia in the 19th century like Germany and Italy but instead fucked it up by going for neutrality and let Norway go in the early 1900's. If Sweden had just used the momentum for Scandinavian unity from the Schleswig War instead of muh neutrality Scandinavia very well could be a federalized state right now.
>can in fact be traced back to Scandinavia
That doesn't make it a North Germanic lineage, though.
Federalized states are generally shit compared to unitary states.
Ask the Nazis and Norwegians.
Viking culture had its roots in East Germanic people, specifically Goths.
Thank god that didn't happened then, considering how retarded Swedish politicians are.
they were pretty shit warriors but at least they knew how to do sailing and poetry.
as a kid I liked vikings almost as much as romans.
A.D. 980-1016
It is always a temptation to an armed and agile nation
To call upon a neighbour and to say: --
"We invaded you last night--we are quite prepared to fight,
Unless you pay us cash to go away."
And that is called asking for Dane-geld,
And the people who ask it explain
That you've only to pay 'em the Dane-geld
And then you'll get rid of the Dane!
It is always a temptation for a rich and lazy nation,
To puff and look important and to say: --
"Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you.
We will therefore pay you cash to go away."
And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we've proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.
It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation,
For fear they should succumb and go astray;
So when you are requested to pay up or be molested,
You will find it better policy to say: --
"We never pay any-one Dane-geld,
No matter how trifling the cost;
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that pays it is lost!"
REMOVE DANES.
probably around viken (viken=viking), which was kinda disputed territory between norway and denmark
Nice Pepe
It's obvious they can only have Germanic roots, as colonization of those wretched lands could only have come from the South, through current Germany and Denmark. Nothing to be expected from the easterns wastelands, now called Russia.
>2 million Bronze Age people contributed NOTHING in the 200 years of their existence
I though this was a well agreed upon thing.
>Are you retarded? Viking culture obviously had its center in Denmark
It's started in western Norway, somewhere around Bergen according to a BBC documenary which referred to some written anglo monk thingy.
Indeed... but the question is precisely why didn't take back home the knowledge the others (Saxons and Franks) held. A miserable crossbow in the series is the only thing they seem to take back. Learning how to make glass windows seems quite obvious...
It's a nonsensical statement to begin with. It's like asking where the cultural center of the US or Norway is. There's as many answers as there are people.
When you come into contact with a superior civilisation, you always take something:
The US contacted with Mexico during the 1845 war... and came home with Tequila, Tacos and Enchiladas...
That's what the monks wrote down, complain to the monks not me. "They (vikings) came from somewhere outside of Bergen.
bergen wasn't even founded at the time the vikangz began their business
I meant what the dane said, that you responded to.
Hordaland then god damn it. It was the BBC documentary guy which stod in Bergen and said that the vikangs came from somewhere close around there
Ancient Chinese ships were discovered on the coasts of California, way older before the Vikings arrived, so there's that. Anyway the only people that did something were the Spanish followed by the Brits and the French.
There is hardly any trace of Germanic activity in Russia. If the Viking story was true, then there would be a lot of Scandinavian babies in Russia, it simply isn't the case.
There is a lot of Finnic genes in Russia though.
Any Viking genes in Nativa American Indians ???
I mean, the Vikings did f*** everything with 2/4 legs.
If what BBC and the monks claims are true, that the first kangz came from somewhere close to Bergen then it can only mean one thing, that "striler" was the first kangz. Some Bergen people claims that striler are a very loud group of rural people and that they have no problems to pick fist fights with others, it's an sport for them.
Can these be the descendants of the first kangz? According to monks they probably are youtube.com
>the irish loved us
This man would disagree