http://youtu.be/8qSkaAwKMD4 What's /pol/'s thoughts

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>>37478351
They represent the best aspects of white men.

>Absolutely courageous
>Culture based on Honor.
>Ambitious
>Life is committed to physical aptitude
>Adventurous
>Epic work ethic
>Carved out huge empires like the Kievan Rus
>Literally held the line when all other westerners had routed against kebab (Varangian Guard)
>Found the New World first
>Invented all kinds of awesome shit, like modern carbon steel, long range navigation and shipbuilding
>Had a free society including democracy
>Did recreational mushrooms to understand their connection to nature.
>their women were raised to be just as courageous and hard working.

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>>37479620
Don't forget about the trade, and their spoken and written canon.

Isn't it rather niggerish, though, to kill, steal, and rape without provocation?

It may be that vikings represent, to us, anyway, more masculinity than brutality, but that latter element can't be ignored.

>>37478351
viking shills pls go, vikings were literally niggers.
>raped
>stole
>killed
the list goes on.

brutal warriors surviving and thriving in a brutal world.

Really cool people, and definitely seemed to put some pride for the white race, but they're highly overrated, yet underrated at the same time.

>Overrated
Thanks to Nordiboo goths and metal heads

>Underrated
Thanks to fucking Mediterranean faggots

>>37480391
And the Romans, Greeks, and Moors didn't do the same?

>>37480634
none of those are white

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glorified snow nigger savages

>>37480250
The plundering of other nations may be "niggerish" but at the same time they weren't fighting defenseless priests like the church would have you believe.

Altogether the viking raids proved only to soften the region for invasion and then long term occupation.

Living in the far north is extremely difficult, and in many ways raiding was the only way to subsist or even grow in any meaningful way. Had the vikings not raided they would have either died out or been crushed centuries later by a much higher populated Europe. They didn't and its why England, Germany, France, Prussia and many other European regions have Aryans at all.

>>37480654
I guess it's confirmed then

The best civilizations were made by non-whites while "nordic white masterrace" were rapists and murderers just like the blacks they hate today, except they would have been much less educated

White blood is inferior. History proves this

>>37480654
>>37480786
You're moving the goalposts. Regardless if those other three groups were white or not, they raped, pillaged, and stole as well, if not in a greater amount.

Even if you said it was for a "cause" like expanding an empire and all that, it's the same fucking thing, even if the people they attacked fought back.

Romans attacked everyone, raped, made people whore slaves, etc. How is that not nigger-like?

There's literally nothing wrong with raiding when you have no other choice to survive.

Factually, the Vikings engages in exceptionally more peaceful trade than violent raiding, and raiding was only practiced by a handful of tribes at any one time, usually the lower caste tribes who had no arable land at their disposal and had no other way to subsist and/or grow.

>>37480670
vikings risked their lives on their raids

"gangstas" end up in a welfare prison

>>37480893
oh so now that they're the best civilization they 'may be' white?

The ratio of accomlishment:rape ratio was much better in these civilizations than the inferior white ones. I guess it just goes to show you who the real animals are

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>raiding is bad

it's bad when you're doing it to a society that provides you prosperity

the vikings went to other lands to plunder

they didnt rape and steal from their own people

niggers did and do

>>37480982
I'm not referring to who's white and who's not. Im saying that you can't call Vikings niggers if they happened to rape and pillage since other groups around Europe did as well, if not more.

>it's ok when vikings act like niggers
/pol/, 2014

>>37481028
>he's not a murderer because he didn't kill as much as others did!!!
this is what you sound like.

>>37481028
>Im saying that you can't call Vikings niggers if they happened to rape and pillage since other groups around Europe did as well, if not more.
>So what if vikings raped and pillaged more than other cultures at the time, everyone else did it to an extent so that makes it okay
Literally a black person argument

>>37481032

>vikings raiding for survival and enrichment against foreigners
>medieval era of scarcity and hardship

>niggers destroying their own societies from witihin
>the information age of material abundance

>comparing vikings to niggers
>in 2014

Sure thing, dumbfuck.

>>37481072
All you did is look at the "if not more" part. You see to have ignored the rest of the argument.

All civilizations raided and raped, the difference with the vikings and the rest, is that Vikings didn't make monolithic structures with fancy engineering. You can't call them niggers because of the raiding and rapes. If you had to, call them that because they didn't have muh technology.

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>>37481099
oh yeah, all those tribes were the best of friends. They would never rape and pillage their fellow northern europeans

>>37481136
but the 'if not more' part isn't true. The vikings are the ones who are remembered for their raping and pillaging. Of course they had their primitive civilizations and society, every culture had that, it was required to survive but the vikings are the epitome of rape and pillage. Literally the niggers of time

>>37481099
>vikings raiding for survival and enrichment against foreigners
>survival
>renrichment against foreigners
top kek, that's why the landed on britain right?

>>37481177
>They would never rape and pillage their fellow northern europeans

If they did it was during war, not an LA chimpout.

But go ahead and keep trying to call some of the world's greatest sailors and traders petty niggers.

We're all laughing at you.

>>37478351
The Vikings did nothing it destroy other civilizations

They never built anything on their own but they were master ship builders

>>37481177

>oh yeah, all those tribes were the best of friends. They would never rape and pillage their fellow northern europeans

Yeah, it's not like the Romans, Franks, Gauls, Celts, Greeks, etc etc etc never warred with their own internal factions, you fucking dumbfuck.

>The vikings are the ones who are remembered for their raping and pillaging.

Because most of what we know about them comes from Roman propaganda and unreliable biased witnesses, which became amplified down through the ages because despite your pathetic understanding of reality, history through the ages is not very accurate or rigorously committed to truth.

>>37479620
The Chinese invented superior ships and navigational techniques long before the Vikings did

They didn't have an influence on the Vikings (who created their own indiginously) but the Chinese made better shit first

>>37481289
>The Chinese invented superior ships

No they didn't. Their ships were littoral warships incapable of sailing on the open seas.

>>37481251
>history through the ages is not very accurate or rigorously committed to truth

So you invent your own narrative

Good one bro

>>37481337
>you invent your own narrative

yes just like comparing vikings to niggers

>>37478351
>Horrible Histories

Thank you based OP

>>37481230
>it was only during war
hahaha no, they did it for fun.

>>37481315
Viking ships were purpose built for river raiding but they just also happened to be good in the open ocean

The Chinese junks never sailed open seas because they were mostly used for trading in the Malay region

If raiding made vikings niggers, all Europe was niggers.

>>37481370
Where did you read this?

>>37481337

No, actually I'm going by the actual archaeological facts we've been uncovering in modern times, which are replacing all of the retarded Roman and Christian caricatures that polluted the truth for so long.

Thank you based science.

>>37481358
That is fairly comparable

The Vikings raided for loot and slaves and left burning ruins their wake, a lot like niggers

>>37481358
>you are not a nigger even if you act like one.
cool story dewd

They were like Neanderthals until Christianity came. Then they doesn't became pussies

>>37481388
Finding swords and gold trinkets all over Europe is not indicative of civilization building it simply shows that they were widespread

The Vikings got BTFO anyway and had to retreat back to their frozen wasteland except for the few who stayed in the British Isles

>>37481379

No actually it's the other way around, their ships were purpose built for sailing the open seas which happened to make them exceptional river craft because of their shallow hulls.

They invented the shallow hull so that their ships would bend and flex over the tops of large waves, instead of having the ship take massive stresses against a main spar that rode deep in the water.

>>37481230
Only white propaganda makes you think they were the best sailors and traders

The best traders were in the Mediterranean, the arabs, in the hotspot of the world. These are the people who had the most resources for intelligent expansion of knowledge. The best sailors would likely have been there too, at the very best the vikings were on par with other cultures sailors. The only reason people think they were the best is because they were the only ones in the area

And of course they didn't riot in cities against the government, because it didn't exist. They couldn't even make it to a civilized society, let alone riot against it. I classify splitting into little groups then waging war on your neighbors over some sheep to be much more degenerate behavior than anything niggers do today

>>37481251
The romans and greeks had riots because of their huge expansions and inability to control the lesser educated people they conquered. The difference is that these are the niggers of their society rioting against the governments. The vikings were just savages, white intelligence at it's finest, still quarreling with their neighbors because of some different hairstyle. Nothing more than barbarians who struggled to design societies the rest of the world had already surpassed

>>37481408

So... are you saying that modern day negros are about as civilised as 8th century pagan barbarians?

I don't understand the point of this or OP's comparison.

>>37481388
>archaeological facts
bunch of stones and rust LEL

>>37481485

>The best traders were in the Mediterranean, the arabs, in the hotspot of the world.

Except you're a fucking retard because sailing the Mediterranean is like a Caribbean cruise compared to sailing the high seas of the Atlantic you fucking landlubber dumbfuck.

>The romans and greeks had riots

"Riots." REALLY NOW. I think you need to pick up a book and recuse yourself until you're not a goddamn fucking dumbass anymore and know even an inkling of European history.

>>37481408

Your logic is shit and ignorant.

>>37481003

>>37481474
No they were shallow hulled and single-decked because they were built for river raiding and to survive the North Sea
There's no argument that they were purpose built to cross the Atlantic, just because they did doesn't mean they were designed to do so
Either way they were master shipbuilders as were the Chinese and even the Arabs who invented the lateen sail

Junks also are shallow draft ships made for trading in shallow waters
I don't think the Chinese expanded further east than the South China Sea though

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>>37481485
>Nothing more than barbarians who struggled to design societies the rest of the world had already surpassed
inb4 butthurt force of VIDF

VIKING SHILLS= BTFO

>>37481537
yes riots. Because they had civilization.

Any war they were engaged in was to conquer more land and expand their empire, not throw rocks at their neighbors and dance around large rocks

>>37481474

Are you saying Vikings copied Chinese designs?

Were Vikings even in contact with the Chinese?

You should look at Greek and Roman warships before you say stupid shit.

Vikings are a cautionary tale.
If the strong away from their land to rape, pillage and kill, the only ones who remain to have children are the weak.

And it shows in their descendants.

>>37481576

>Any war they were engaged in was to conquer more land and expand their empire
>not niggers

>Any raids the Vikings were engaged in was to conquer more land and expand their wealth and influence
>this makes them niggers

Yeah ok dumbass.

>>37481594
who the fuck is saying vikings copied chinese, l2read.

>>37481630

That's what he's implying by saying hurr the chinks did it first.

If they're worlds apart what difference does it make? Innovation is innovation, and the fucking greeks and romans did it before even they did.

And in b4 some autist comes in explaining the difference between bi and triremes and the fucking viking longships.

>>37481671

This guy must be functionally retarded. He can't even follow the conversation...

Pitiful thing.

>>37481576

>Any war they were engaged in was to conquer more land and expand their empire

And how is this justifiable?

>>37481671
Then why did the post expressly say that the Vikings created their own ships and navigation techniques indigenously?

Do you even read more than the first sentence of every post?

>>37481712

Because it's only niggerish when 6'4" pale giants do it.

When swarthy 5'7" homosexuals do it, it's "empire building."

>>37481695

And this guy doesn't understand I'm talking about the fag who was acting like chink ships did it first.

If that's not you, move along.

>>37481757

I think you've been replying to the wrong comments the whole time anon.

Actually, I think you might actually be in the wrong thread altogether..

>>37481712
>nazi asking how expansion is justifiable

u wot

>>37481617
but the vikings would destroy most places they went. They didn't bring civilization to new land, they brought barbarian ways of thinking and ritualistic behavior

How can anyone justify whites as being superior when they couldn't even create anything new, always stealing from other cultures. Their expansion was pitiful compared to the asians and the Mediterraneans

If it wasn't for the ineptitude of whites in surrounding countries to the romans and greeks, they would have never collapsed and the world would be speaking latin today

>>37481472

>The Vikings got BTFO anyway and had to retreat back to their frozen wasteland except for the few who stayed in the British Isles

Except for, you know, those guys who took over Normandy and went on to rule England.

>>37481753
It's still up for debate whether Kievan Rus was established by Vikings or Slavs

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>>37478351

Are they white? Are you a retard?

Who would be white, if not the Scandinavians?

> Yes, I am actually a white Scandinavian, but that doesn't change the fact.

>>37480982
>The accomplishment:rape ratio was[...]

Whoa, that's some exquisite broscientific racism. . .

>>37481848

bitter celts or south europeans would probably say vikings werent white

>>37481712
vikings rarely conquered land. They primarily plundered. Their empire grew by spreading their seed wherever they went, like savages

>>37481797

No they didn't you fucking idiot. The Vikings preferred being paid tribute to having to fight, and killing people who don't submit to you is just how raiding goes. Pay or die. They didn't sail thousands of miles on the harsh open seas to say "oh, you don't want to pay, oh ok then, sorry to have bothered you. have a nice day." You're such a fucking dumb Christian cuck it's pathetic.

>couldn't even create anything new

You mean like the first ships capable of sailing high seas? How about high carbon steel?

>Their expansion was pitiful compared to the asians and the Mediterraneans

They weren't expansionists. Their populations were absurdly small compared to the swarthy milkboys that lived in warm, abundant luxury.

You are such a dainty faggot, why are you even trying to make an argument?

>>37481810
They took over the remnants of the Carolingian empire they didn't create anything on their own

>>37481927
You seem upset and you haven't argued against any points I've made

>>37481927
High carbon steel was invented by the Japanese

Their blades were far superior to Viking blades

>>37482001

Thank you for your omission that you've lost the argument by turning to ad hominems to keep yourself relevant here.

>>37481915
>vikings rarely conquered land
Except for you know, founding Russia and settling Normandie and the large eastern part of England.

>Their empire grew by spreading their seed wherever they went, like savages
My sides. Viking empire? They were a handful of petty kings living at the roof of Europe. It took about 200 years before proper trade relations were established and they turned Christian - mainly because trading in dried cod (back then that was the potato) was more profitable than raiding.
/pol/, learn more per-history will you.

This is an obvious shill thread, why the fuck are you retards not calling out this kike.

>>37482012
High carbon steel was invented by the Indians.

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>>37482038
Is this verbal irony or paranoia?

>>37482018
>I strawmanned his arguments and he called me out on it
>i win

>>37482012
This

A katana was folded thousands of times. Could a viking blade be folded like that? No? oh that's right

>>37482038

Because the janitor's being lazy and not immediately deleting another "are X white?" thread.

>>37482063
The Japanese katana (actual handmade ones not neckbeard crap bought at mall kiosks) are widely considered to be the pinnacle of swordsmithing

>>37479620
And converted to Christianity as soon as they knew about it.

Truly based.

>>37481927

In all honesty (and this is coming from a Norwegian) "we" probably didn't invent the steel, it was probably imported from Damascus. However, the vikings made superior swords from this steel.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulfberht

Not sure who the actual smith was though, but the vikings were the only ones who had them.

Also, for people interested in history, it's very clear that although the vikings did some bad things, they also contributed to building societies, and often got the locals on their side. They were so few in numbers that they would never have been able to hold i.e. England without the support of the locals...

>>37480922
Well, police or village guards... I wonder which one is more dangerous.

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>>37482012

>>37482012
>High carbon steel was invented by the Japanese

Lol, no it wasn't you fucking idiot. Japanese steel was exceptionally low quality because of the ores they had available to them, and their invention was folding the steel and mixing various hardnesses to achieve a flexible blade that kept an edge. They had to do this because if they made a whole sword out of their inferior steel it would be so brittle it would shatter in battle, which happened routinely and is why certain bladesmiths became renowned for being masters who could consistently produce blades that were warfare capable.

>Their blades were far superior to Viking blades

Only uneducated weeaboo faggots actually believe this because their worthless otaku brains prefer weeaboo romanticism to historical fact.

The reality is that Japanese swords were actually garbage compared to European swords. The only reason they were notable is because the Japanese were clever enough to make something passable with their inferior metallurgy.

>someone brought up jap swords

QUICK POST THE GIF OF THE KATANA BENDING WHEN IT HITS A LONGSWORD

>>37480893
>How is that not nigger-like?

>Conquest
>Nigger-like

Dude, the africans never conquered anyone, ever. How is organised conquest nigger-like?

>>37482160
The Ulfbehrt was inferior to the Katana

A samurai wielding a katana would absolutely destroy a Viking with an Ulfbehrt

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>>37482120

>widely considered to be the pinnacle of swordsmithing

By weeaboo autists that don't actually know fucking anything about metallurgy, blacksmithing, or warfare.

You're probably one of those autist retards that thinks the Katana was routinely used in battle.

Fact was, drawing your katana was a distant and undesirable third option after a spear or nodachi was made unavailable to you.

Faggot.

>>37482021

As a Norwegian, I can tell you that the obvious name "Normandie" is etymologically from "Nordmann" -> Norwegian (man from "nord")

"Russia" -> "Russland" -> probably from the Norwegian word for "rowing" -> "Ro" -> "Rossland"... because they rowed their boats there...

Captcha: Had nor

>>37482163
>The reality is that Japanese swords were actually garbage compared to European swords.

Damascus steel is still the finest.

They're only learning how to make that again now.

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>>37482210

well played i am fucking dying

>>37482217
Or bow.

>>37482079
You're clearly right, how could I not know that the some of the whitest people in Europe were just a bunch of niggers, while actual black people are hard working and have many great cultures.

>>37482114
This just shows that janitors either don't care or are shills themselves

>>37482163
Katanas are able to slice right through plate armor which the Vikings didn't even have

>>37479620
>Invented all kinds of awesome shit, like modern carbon steel,
Nah that one's unfortunately not true. They learned it while traveling the east with their top-notch ships and navigation though, admittedly resulting in some crazy good smithing like the ulfberth swords. AFAIK the only euros to make good steel by themselves were the celts.

>>37482120
>are widely considered to be the pinnacle of swordsmithing

Not really. You think of the modern katanas. There has been many variations since they started making them. We are only thinking they were considered the pinnacle because we're told so.
In reality they were pretty much the only type of sword the japanese had to draw on, and it was only the samurai that were allowed to use them.

Japan is a small island, and you can regulate that easy. It's basically ensuring only your military has the best weapons, like today.

>>37482197

I will beat you in Chivalry: Deadiest Warrior right now you turbonigger.

>>37481315
They transported animals from Africa to China, seems like they made decent ships.

They just turned inwards at the wrong time and abandoned exploration, then the Europeans took off with it and went on to colonize most of the world

>>37482210

Lol, a katana made with modern metallurgy and smithing technology against a sword that is locked in vices and prevented from deflecting or flexing against the impact.

This is the proof weaboos need to feel vindicated in their mental illness.

>>37482284

it's an edit, you're supposed to laugh at it

>>37482257
>Katanas are able to slice right through plate armor which the Vikings didn't even have

Modern katanas. The Japanese didn't really use full metal knight-ish armours.
And the vikings lived in an age where the ring mail shirt was the pinnacle of protection. Only the Persians only ever had plate armoured knights, and that was during the Roman eras.

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>>37479620
>sold Europeans as slaves to Kebab by the thousands

The Varangians were mainly bodyguards, these guys did the real work on the battlefield.

>>37482217
That's because the Japanese understood that using a weapon with greater reach is a superior first attack strategy to just running about like a chicken with its head cut off flailing a longsword about

>>37482323
>The Japanese didn't really use full metal knight-ish armours.

They kinda did, which makes it even more clear the guy's being a provocative rascal. Metal armor was fine protection.

>>37482323

You're responding to him like what he said was even true.

Not even modern Katanas can "slice right through plate armor"

>>37482263
The best katanas were produced by swordsmiths in the 16th and 17th centuries

The way they are crafted today is the same as what back then using the same techniques and the same furnaces (obviously not taking about chink factory blades)

WHO VIKING BLOOD HERE?

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>>37482284
butthurt gaijin

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>>37480250
I don't now.
When there was war, be it the English French or Germans or Swedes.

They didn't where afraid to plunder churches or villages and rape.

I know one time in Flanders the French Army stole a fucking clockwork from a church cause they where jellly of its technical advancement.

>>37482339

It's interesting to watch you expose your complete and utter ignorance of the evolution of martial combat in the East and the West.

There's a reason spears were largely abandoned in Western warfare.

It's called armor.

Look it up.

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>>37482393

not me i am a germanic mutt

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>>37482267
Alright bitch lets do it

>>37482323
That's because the ceramic tile sewn over leather is a superior armor

>>37482406
You forgot about those Tercio and Landsknecht in the 16 - 17 century.

>>37482236

Which is exactly the type of steel the viking swords were made of...

If your point is that the Persians had better smiths, I will agree, but viking swords were still far superior to anything else in europe around that time...

>>37482406
Spears were never abandoned in warfare in fact they were the primary weapon from the Roman Era all the way up through the pike square era

Spears will poke right through plate

>>37482495
>viking swords were still far superior to anything else in europe around that time...

Is that why they imported Frankish swords by the boatload?

sweden

yes

>>37482495
Nah, the celts had "viking swords" way before the vikings did. Doesn't mean the viking didn't make very good swords once they adopted the metallurgy techniques required to do so.

>>37482495
>Persians had better smiths

Better metal.

>>37482504
The Roman's used short swords

>>37480250
>Isn't it rather niggerish, though, to kill, steal, and rape without provocation?

A new theory about the viking age was that it was Scandinavians fighting a holy/culture war against christianization. Started a little bit after Charlemagne's Saxon Wars.

>>37482533
I am ignorant, but would guess that they were unable to produce enough by their own methods and labors to arm everyone.

>>37482617
With high-quality swords, I should add.

>>37482358
You have nothing to back up your claim, mate.
>>37482369
They can with some effort, but you'll break it. A knights two handed sword is better though, because you use the weight of the sword to use it as a spear to pierce armour.
>>37482392
>The way they are crafted today is the same as what back then using the same techniques and the same furnaces
That's what we're led to believe, and in all probability the only technique not changed is how you fold your sword. The quality of steel and balancing the carbon has surely changed a lot.
As you say, the best katanas were produced in the 16th and 17 centuries. By this time modernization had come to Japan.

the katana was the ultimate sword of any year

>>37482393

I am...

I am actally descended from the same family as "Rollo" of Normandie (obviously not his direct descendant, but from that family. He was from an island right outside where I grew up...

Not that it really matters, it was literally 1000 years ago....

>>37482470
>That's because the ceramic tile sewn over leather is a superior armor

Not really. It all depends on what weapons you're aiming to defend yourself with. All is cause and effect. Causes being weapons, effects being the armours to protect yourself from the weapons with.

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>>37482579
Their auxilia counterparts used spears. They did the heavier lifting on the battle field on account of them being more expendable.

>>37482579'
Velites, Triarii, Auxilaries.
And a lot of Germanic mercanaries.

>>37482652
>You have nothing to back up your claim, mate.

What, do you want to challenge the fact that japs used metal armor?

>>37478351
Vikings are the nigger of Europe.

Culture centered in the glorification of pillage, murder and rape.

I bet they even raped.

>>37482681

My granddad was told he was of "viking descent" cause he had a growth on his hand that was supposedly only found in people of descent

dunno if it's true, though

viking masterrace

>>37482533

The poorfags only had Frankish inferior swords, that is correct, but the wealthy vikings had swords made from (imported) damascus steel.

>>37482397
Someone explain this scene to me? What's happening?

>>37482652
>because you use the weight of the sword to use it as a spear to pierce armour.
The chief way to kill a knight is to trip him on his back, grasp the blade of your own sword midway down, and thrust down. Or use a stilletto in his eyeslit.

>>37482565

Source? Where the hell did the celts get their Damascus steel from?

I'm not talking about shape here...

>>37482570

Same metal ;) Vikings bought metal from the Persians....

>>37482725
But the vikings where a small caste of professional plunderers (and swords-for-hire), while the majority of the scandinavian population where traders, craftsmen, or farmers.

>>37482718
Only really started to use metal armor after they had contact with the Portuguese.

Even fire arms they where using like a 1000 years ago before the Portuguese but after they saw the arquebus they started to copy it and use it as a standard arms in their armies.

>>37482830
This is true of any population that has had a military

But Scandinavians were living in mud huts while their white counterparts were building cathedrals and castles

>>37482757
Kill a knight instantly yes. But often you must just wear the knight down, and you can slice and chop and cause bleeding too.

>>37482800
They were the first europeans to independently make steel of decent quality.
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noric_steel

>>37482743

Never heard of it.. I don't have any growth on my hand ;)

Anyway, it would be hard NOT to be descendant from vikings, being pureblood Norwegian...

>>37482800
Vikings and celts had contact with the Mediterranean civilizations as they did find like Carthaginian/Phoenician coins and the like.

And they fought in the Byzantine army as mercenaries.

>>37482881
>implying niggers can build state of the art ships

Also read Snorris Edda about pre-Christian Viking culture, since you seem to be lacking a lot of knowledge about this.

>>37482916

please tell me you have beautiful long blonde hair

you perfect specimen

>>37482800

Watch the Ulfberht documentary.

They probably traded for small amounts of high quality steel, and then a smith used it to make a limited batch of quality weapons.

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>>37482881
>mud huts
No, they built log houses.
>But Scandinavians were living in mud huts while their white counterparts were building cathedrals and castles
Advanced civilizations first developed in warm climates near great rivers. The scandinavians were much more busy surviving.

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>>37482830
This seems accurate and concise.

>>37483025
>long houses

So the same shit tier buildings the that American Indians had

Maybe vikings are more akin to the red savage

>>37482997
Not him but I do. My face looks exactly like a slightly younger skwisgaar skwigelf

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>>37482881

Partially correct...

I will admit our culture was lacking behind...but it wasn't THAT bad...

Pic related, but not from viking era...

Vikings were essentialy niggers who only showed up to steal and rape.

>>37483068

Except the American Indians were stone age cavemen.

>>37483068
Don't they use the same excuse too?

>B-but it was difficult to survive in that environment
You're only there because nobody else wants too and your race is too pathetic to do anything about it

>>37482997

I have blue eyes, and actually did have (somewhat long) blonde hair untill my teens... My brother is still VERY blonde though... my sister too.

>>37483128
So were the Vikings only difference is they had technology from other peoples to copy

>>37483079

keep it based, Norwegian bro

>>37483135
I'm Persian

My race invented literally everything of note until the industrial revolution

>>37483188
post pics of ur sister

>>37483212
No we didn't

Our kind was fucked when the mongols burned all the litterature we had, and fucked our country over

>>37483212
Too bad you've done fuck all after it

>>37483212

> until Islam and the dark ages

Corrected that for you ;)

No hate, I really like the old Persian culture... too bad about that Muhammed guy...

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>>37483212
you're thinking of the greeks

>>37479620
>>Culture based on Honor.
I somehow doubt you have any idea what either of these two words actually mean.

>>37483235
Meant for>>37483169

>>37483254
Islam isn't the problem, look up "the islamic golden age"

What is the problem is politics, and other countries fucking our shit up because we had incompetent leaders

>>37482258
>Celts
>Steel
you wot

>>37483274
The Greeks didn't invent anything other than ass fucking and a screw to get water out of a lake

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>>37483306
>He believes Muslims were responsible for "Islamic Golden age"

>Pretty easy to take credit for things after you've plundered all those smart Christians :^)

>>37478351
I'm hyped for the Mount & Blade: Warband Viking expansion.

Saw your picture. You're a shit brother for posting that pic of your sister.

>>37483383
You're retarded

I was implying that no one ever gave a fuck about religion. Islam was basically the arabs excuse to gather the willpower to invade other countries, it's strictly politics.

And the iranians were Zarathusts(sp?) not christian

>>37483333
I'm pretty sure they invented everything

>>37482155
come on now, "gangstas" live in a 1st world country with electricity, sanitation and a welfare state and they commit crime against their own neighborhood usually

it's a dumb comparison

>>37483333
What is: Greek literature, philosophy, classical science, Gears, Cartography, Water mills, astronomy and much more

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>>37483430
What are you talking about? Bannerlord?

I wish there were a more convenient time for late antiquity and the early middle ages that wasn't 'The Dark Ages'.

A Total War game set then has also been announced.

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>>37483467
Vikings a shit.

>>37482120


Fucking broadswords have shown time And time again to be superior to fucking weeaboo swords. Fuck off

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>>37483546
https://www.taleworlds.com/en/Games/VikingConquest

>>37483533
No facts aloud in these arguments

All dark skinned Mediterraneans are shit tier

cause muh vikings, muh white genetics

>>37483533
Chinese invented superior cartography and gears

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>>37483294
same aryan?

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>>37483624
>brytenwalda being a fully fledged game

YES

>>37483679
>dat neck

She belongs in a zoo m8

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>>37482144
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFxN00yRvcI

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>>37483660
Okay

>>37483457

Yeah, kind of forgot what this place is, but it's not like it is a very private photo...