Can we agree that the history of the vikings is interesting even

>>1499680
>taking the bait

>be viking
>HURR I KILLED A MONK I'M SUCH LE BERSERKIR
>OH FUG OLAF THE ARMY IS COMING BETTER RUN AWAY :DD

in 2100 they will romanticize niggers too mark my words

>>1499680
Friendly reminder that the vikings were just a small subset of the scandinavian tribes, and were traders first, raiders second.

>>1501242
>Charlemagne wuz a good boi he dindu nuffin

>>1501242
We already do if gangsta rap is any indication.

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>>1499680
Yes i agree. Hollywood and 12 year old retards overestimate vikings and overblow them way too much, and i always hate that. It's the reason why i can't stand stephen seagul movies. Like that terrible show vikings, a single norse warrior in that movie is the fucking terminator. It's an army of terminators.

On the other hand contrarians on 4hcan overblow it in the other direction, they make it like vikings were the dumbest most incompetent useless weak retards the world has ever seen. And obviously this is not true, they really were powerful warriors, they founded normandy and conquered England and Sicily, they founded Rus and crushed the khazar empire, they served as elite warriors of the eastern roman emperor. They really were great warriors.

>>1501921
>conquered England
>Normans
>Vikings

This is why people hate Vikingboos.

>>1501921
>Rus
>vikings

> Their nature, origin and identity are much in dispute.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rus%27_people

also even if the viking theory is true it states only the ruling class were vikings so the Slavs still did most of the work not to mention after few generations they assimilated just like they did in Normandy

>waaahhh they attacked Christians

Look into the history of what Christians did to pagans for centuries prior to that. It was a retaliation similar to the crusades.

>>1502168
That's cool and all but killing unarmed fucking farmers was hardly heroic.

confirm/deny: the type of neckbeard who used to fetishize vikings has moved onto being a byzaboo LARPer instead

>>1501921
>>1501921
4chan and /pol/ christcucks are not the same thing. Most of us don't have to compensate for worshipping a literal faggot like on a stick. Judas stuck it in Jesuss hairy Hebrew asshole

>>1502173
Yeah burning people alive or kidnapping king's sons for ransom forcing them to convert was hardly heroic either.

>>1502289
Farmers were burning people alive?

>>1502299
People who forced your Jewish religion down people's throats were.

>>1502316
And they were related to english farmers?

Dude gr8 warriors lmao
>except they got r3kt majority of times they went against any warriors
dude le pagans
>that's why Sweyn Forkbeard built churches, vikings totally hated christianity and that's why they targeted monasteries not because they simply were easy targets
>muh discovering of America
discovering something and not telling anyone is such an achievement

their ships were good though

>>1502221
go write your homework or something, kid, this is a grownup board

>>1502556
Lad the Great Heathen Army almost destroyed England.

I say this as an Anglo-Saxobaboo, that they were not weak when actually formed as armies. Vikings were not armies, they were small raiding parties.

>>1503404
>almost

and I'm almost impressed

>>1502556
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/4v0qzw/does_the_reputation_of_vikings_as_fierce_warriors/

I'm 99% sure this is you or one of the 2 other fags here who hate vikings

>>1502316
Daily reminder that most Germanics converted due to the efforts of Anglo-Saxon missionaries like Boniface (Wynfrith) and Willibrord.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_mission

>>1503432
>being so paranoid about reputation of your meme warriors you had to google it

lmao

>>1503515
I read /r/AskHistorians daily, I saw it when it was posted

>>1503525
>the Vikingboo is also a redditor

of course

>it's a "the autistic anti-viking" episode

Get a life dude

>>1502061
>Dumbfuck doesn't know about the Great Heathen Army

>>1503547
Alfred was greater apparently.

>>1502179
Duh

You can see the transition as years go by

>Arrogant fedora
>Edgy vikingbroo
>Crusadeer LARP
>Byzanboo

>>1503561
Then I guess Cnut was the greatest

>>1503572
>only two (2) successors

kek

>>1503562
We have to predict the next trend and invest heavily in it.

My bet is on either Objectivist 1950s Americana or Hindubooism.

>>1501846
4000 wasn't enough

>>1503611
I've been thinking about spinning Confucianism as some sort of superior ideology on /pol/ soon

Crusader LARPing started when a very dedicated shitposter posted it every 6 months nonstop during the last election

Did you know that the first romans was ruled by kings who was vikings. Tarquinius superbus the last viking king of rome was overthrown by the latins who ruled rome for a couple of centuries. Until sulla the great viking general overthrew the latins and exterminated them in the social war. Now vikings was running rome again and a latin wasnt seen in the region again until it was sacked by alaric and the latins eventually killed or sent the black vikings to scandinavia . Julius caesar was a black viking.

>>1503676
>Julius Caesar was a black viking
>vikings were kings of Rome till Latins overthrow them
>black vikings in general
Wew, you're throwing a lot of chum into the water there mate. How about I help.
Adolf Hitler comes from a same line as the great Jewish warrior Beowulf, who was also the greatest black man in Denmark.

>>1503695
It's b8 dude it's some new copypasta about the Irish ruling Iberia and what not

>>1503746
I know it's bait, thus the >Wew, you're throwing a lot of chum into the water there mate. How about I help.

>>1503760
Holy shit greentext, what the fuck. Fuck it, you get the idea.

>>1503525
You have to go back.