Why do Scandinavians focus so much on Vikings?

Why do Scandinavians focus so much on Vikings?
They were no great inventors, traders or painters,
Just an irrelevant bunch of raiders for a short time in history,

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because it's literally their trademark, just like yours are Nazis and Holocaust lmao

They represent their now lost masculinity

raiders maybe

not short time nor irrelevant

they were raiding during the bronze age and iron age, that's 2 millenniums of raiding of course the "viking" word did not apply to the earlier ones but they are basically the same peoples doing the same thing sans migration

they have nothing else

viking age lasts around 200-250, plus there were quite a few others raiders

if it was so simple

vikinganswerlady.com/timeline.shtml

They were great craftsmen and were the best sailors of their time. Their boats were revolutionary for the time

They were actually great traders

>trust wiki timeline more

>great traders
but not Venice, VOC or Genua tier

I almost never see anyone here in Sweden focus on vikings seriously, it's the rest of the world that uses them as some kind of historical scandinavian stereotype.

Daily reminder that the most relevant "Viking" dynasty to have ever existed was of Finnic origin.

>Creating Russia
>Being proud of it

fairy tales

the viking age has to do with outsiders than insiders

it begins a few years before lindisfarne that is raiding along the coast of Christianized britain and ends with 1066 with the defeat of the viking army by alfred

thus it is not an internally defined time frame as they were "viking" before and after this period as attested by the danelaw and stones around europe

viking age thus a a period of british history rather than some overview of scandi history since it's all what happened in britiain or on the continent

>yours are Nazis and Holocaust lmao
ou yours, the eternal victim

alfred = harold

I heard there's a new museum opening in Sweden about Vikings. The point being to show how they really lived vs. the hyper-romanticized bullshit you see in your pseudo-historical costume dramas on tv.

No, unfortunately for you.

familytreedna.com/public/rurikid/

>Why do Scandinavians focus so much on Vikings

You mean non-Scandinavians do that

They were great explorers, shipbuilders and warriors

Winged Hussars actually
Did he speak Finnish?

Scandinavia has nothing else to show.

>eternal victim

>Did he speak Finnish
Some dialect of Finnic possibly, using Norse as a lingua franca as was custom for Baltic seafarers of his time.

>Scandinavia has nothing else to show.
They have nice women and ahhhhhh forests, okay weather and ahhhhh fish and eatable cuisine and ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh blonde hair?

It's you damn smelly foreigners who do that because you don't know anything about Scandinavia, it's just "Hurr member vikings?"

God Tier: Crafters of the World
>Roman
>Greek
>Egyptian
>Mesopotamian
>Babylonians

Great Tier
>British
>Spanish
>French
>USA
>Chinese

Good Tier
>Portuguese
>Dutch
>Persian

Villain Tier
>Mongol
>Germany
>Ottoman
>Jewish

Irrelevant Tier
>Scandinavians
>Canadians

He spoke "stadin slangi" an ancient mix of Finnish and Swedish that has been preserved until modern days in the streets of old Helsinki

then why are swedes still we-wuzing about him? hmmmmm

Cuckmansson can't deal with the reality genetics have unearthed before his eyes.

Why are Polish people dumb faggots? Oh, you meant on Sup Forums, the anime imageboard.

Few people know who Rurik even was. Erik is probably the only viking most people know the name of.

>They have nice women

Only third world countries display their women like a piece of meat.

>forests, okay weather

Frozen.

>fish and eatable cuisine

Doesn't sound tasty.

>blonde hair

So does half of Europe.

Easy there, Magnus Cuckensson

>So does half of Europe.
not blonde-blonde, but fair hair yes

we wuz man and shit

I ain't clicking that shit.

t-tthat's a big mammary gland

I love poland but nobody outside Sup Forums-autists know or care about the hussars.

Kek

I love scandinavian women
Their masculine features arouse me a lot. I hate feminine women.
The manlier they look the better

I'm not homosexual btw

this. Sweden at least, draws most of it's relevant cultural history from the middle ages and renaissance

>I love poland
WRONG

>trying to bait me with a webm I made

your lackluster Sup Forums powers are of no use here, pooland

We don't. You think of Americans..

They invented the disassembled knäcklafår chair