On one hand you have Italians, Greeks and English who contributed

>>1649481
Blame the English.

>>1649481
Why do people dickride nips and gooks over thousand nation China? Same reasons.

Italy is regularly dickrided in modern times tho. Literally have the best stereotypes and grew out of all the bad rap they got in the 1900s.

>>1649481
They produced a large body of literature and art.

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>Italians, Greeks and English on the same tier

>>1651822
You mean sagas written two centuries after viking age? Yeah that's legit.

>>1652224
You said Norse

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Hhhuuurrr

Modern day Scandinavia is pretty good.

It's an interesting culture?

Do you get mad when parents tell their children Native American folk tales because they're interesting?

Because those guys didn't have a civilization either, but they were an interesting group of people, and a lot of people are fascinated by them.

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>>1653860
>>1653863
Am I supposed to be fucking impressed by armor? That's their contribution to the world? Aside from the fact that the fact that neither of those helmets were used by them.

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Nice revisionism lmao this is how vikings actually looked like

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>>1653884

Most of those green place weren't even raided, let alone settled, lol what a shit map.

>>1653907
But got chased off by natives.

>>1653952
Green was a raiding area, blatantly

>>1653978
Number of other Europeans who literally ever met natives at that time ever: 0


We're also pretty sure they were assimilated into the native populations because they simply weren't in any contact with other Norsemen.

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>>1653860
>>1653863
>>1653867
>>1653877
>>1653884
>>1653895
>>1653902
While I agree that early Norse cultures are interesting and worthy of study, you're only making yourself look like a complete retard when you post like this.

>>1649481

Because Scandinavian people are tall and handsome, and every handsome people is given the benefit of the doubt

> Germans ugly
> Russians ugly
> Americans tall and handsome
> Americans are loved by everyone (not as much as 30 years ago, but still)

>>1653985
No, it isn't blatant at all.

there are no written documents or archaeological proofs of the fact that Vikings raided Sardinia or even Corsica as far as I know.

>>1654031
>showing proof of advances when told they were basically cavemen makes you look like an idiot
OP is a fucking joke and fallacies ought not to be posted on /his/

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>>1649481
>On one hand you have Italians, Greeks and English who contributed to the world immensely
>Italians and English

>>1654049
I've actually seen discussion about that particular area and that is doubtful.

Otherwise, let's make that area gray. Does this make them so much less impressive?

>>1649481
>English
>contributed to the world at all
Good one lad

>>1654032
Americans consider fucking 180cm to be tall.

>>1654352
Yes. Every ''achievement'' of vikings is made up bullshit.

>>1653884
I always forget they were in Sicily.

>>1649481
Probably because they were one of the only, half-organized group of humans which acted as closely to homosapiens as they get. All they really did was eat, fuck, try to take land they could see, and discover it where they couldnt see. It's the same sort of appreciation you have for a pack of wolves that take over "hunting grounds" or lion prides claiming land for themselves. Obviously they are below you, but it's fascinating nonetheless.

>>1654370
But they did, you jealous loser nation.

>>1654376
How did the bad Danish man hurt you?

>>1654441
By speaking his abominable language.

>>1654032

uh no theyre not

>>1654371
????

5'10 is not considered tall. I'm 6' and no one has ever called me tall except manlets who want to pretend their height is average

>>1655136
Sorry I don't speak ooga booga I don't know the fuck are you bullshitting about but is that true you shart in mart?

>>1652224
Much of the sagas take place in the viking age and even earlier, there's tales of wars between Huns and Goths.

>>1651819
'cept the stereotypes about their military capabilities. Great acts of bravery indiviually amongst soldiers in their wars. But horrible leadership

>>1651819
>Why do people dickride nips and gooks over thousand nation China?

Enjoy wiping your ass with no toilet paper white boy.

>>1649481
Name one English contribution to the world in the Viking era.

Also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carruca

>The carruca may have been introduced to the British Isles by the Viking invasions of England in the late 9th century.

lel England

>>1653861
>Modern day Scandinavia is pretty good.
can confirm, shit's pretty good.
safe and boring though, but good.

>>1655606
>wiping your own ass in 2016

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>>1653884
fixed

>>1654383
my cousin has a blond gf. They're pretty proud of being Aryan.

>>1656345
Then they should kill themselves because germanics have fuck all to do with aryans.

>>1656842
maybe he means Aryan, not as the Indo-Iranic term, but as the previously-believed synonym with the Indo-Europeans.

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>>1653884
>500 years from now

Look at deeze statistics brudduh, the black man kill kill de white man, we waz kangz in Detroit. We noble, we noble like kingz. We need to get back to our root, aight? African architect and sculptue not dis whitey shit. Well shieeet, we waz a noble people, never forget who you were descended from, we go viKANG blood in our veins, warrior blood.

>>1656968
Literally what

>>1656842
t. prescriptivist honky

What a bait thread.

>>1653884
if you'd do the same with some country that was open to sea and generally considered important in western europe and so france england spain the FUCKING entire world would be in their colors so your map is a bit ridiculous

>>1655136
Is that in Queen Elizabeth's feet or George's feet?

>>1653883
Kek

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>>1649481
>the worth of a culture is decided exclusively by their intellectual contributions

>>1657952
...as opposed to?

>>1657976
Is mongol culture worthy?

>>1658024
No.

>>1649481
>The greatest sailors of the era.
>Raided almost every coast in Europe.
>Owned a trading empire that spanned Europe and Russia.
>Were essentially the boogiemen of the sea for a century.
>Christian monks would go on to describe them as literal demons.

Might not have been the most civilized people on earth but they were influential as fuck.

>>1649604
Everyone does lad