The Vikings were not Germans

[Woodznutz]

Right, and the last Viking to command a raid was Norman Schwarzkopf

"Stormin' Norman".

 

[Woodznutz]

Curiously I could only find one Viking named Norman. Norman Snead played for the Vikings in 1971.

 

[Zebra]

the Norman's did indeed hail from Scandinavia.

So it is

 

[Zebra]

Of course the Vikings were not "German" in the modern sense of the word.

They were Germanic - like most of Scandinavia except Finland

 

[Zebra]

the vikingd were Germanic

 

[Woodznutz]

the Vikings were Germanic

"Aliens who push others out".

Describes the Israelites perfectly.

 

[Litwin]

They were Germanic

No, this is academic writing not easy to read but still :
Pritsak, Omeljan. The Origin of Rus'.

https://shron3.chtyvo.org.ua/Pritsak_Omelian/The_Origin_of_Rus_anhl.pdf

 

[ThirdTerm]

The Vikings didn't have German ancestry. They were the descendants of Old North people who had lived in Scandinavia for more than 10,000 years. The Proto-Norse language developed into Old Norse by the 8th century. German ethnicity only began to emerge in medieval times after the end of Roman rule. Old Norse began to develop into the modern North Germanic languages in the 14th century through cultural borrowings.

 

[Deadstick]

They were Danish and Norwegian, the area i live in in North West England has many Danish place names even some streets have Danish names.

 

[GLASNOST]

the vikingd were Germanic

By what standard?

 

[GLASNOST]

They were Danish and Norwegian, the area i live in in North West England has many Danish place names even some streets have Danish names.

Surnames ending in "son", for example, are Scandinavian, such as Erikson (Ericson) means the son of Erik. The Swedish version Eriksson means Erik's son which is the same thing. The even older Icelandic names such as Eiríksdóttir means Erik's daughter. This female version was phased out in all but Iceland.

 

[surada]

The Vikings didn't have German ancestry. They were the descendants of Old North people who had lived in Scandinavia for more than 10,000 years. The Proto-Norse language developed into Old Norse by the 8th century. German ethnicity only began to emerge in medieval times after the end of Roman rule. Old Norse began to develop into the modern North Germanic languages in the 14th century through cultural borrowings.

See Vikings of the East by Fadlan.

 

[surada]

There is further confusion here in the word "viking" itself. This word apparently from "viting" - the servant.
These people served the Teutonic Knights, and subsequently the Prussian bureaucracy arose from this class.


This has nothing to do with those warriors in horned helmets, and those warriors most likely did not call themselves that.


Warriors in horned helmets are represented by the Altaians of the Afanasiev culture, I wrote about it here

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Unfortunately, the Nordic race is often confused with the "white" race and the "Germanic" race. This has nothing to do with reality. The Nordic race is an offshoot of the Afanasiev culture, the same as the Tochars and the native Americans of the Inde (Apache). Archaeolonically, this people is...

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There is proof of this: the petroglyphs of the Scandinavian Bronze Age, proving that horned warriors were already then.

Pan-Germanists say that the Vikings were much later, in the Middle Ages. It's a lie.

The Vikings, also known as Varangians, were Scandinavians who migrated to Eastern Europe in the 9th and 10th centuries. They were traders, raiders, and mercenaries who established a presence in what is now Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine.

Here are some of the Vikings' activities in Eastern Europe:

Trade: The Vikings operated the Volga trade route, which connected northern Russia to the Middle East. They also established trading posts that eventually became permanent settlements.

Colonization: The Vikings settled at the Caspian Sea and in Constantinople.

Piracy: The Vikings were known for piracy.

Mercenary activities: The Vikings were hired by Slavic tribes to establish order.

Kievan Rus: The Vikings are believed to have created or instigated the first organized Russian state, Kievan Rus. This loose federation of principalities lasted for almost 400 years until the Mongol invasion in the 13th century.

Rus' people: The term "Rus" refers to the population of the regions where the Vikings settled, which was a mix of Scandinavians, steppe-nomads, and Slavic peoples.

 

[surada]

What do you mean, "The Vikings were not Germans"? The Vikings consisted of many peoples, including Poles and Germans.

Ahmad ibn Fadlan's Risala (Letter) is a well-known account of the Volga Vikings, or Rūs, written in the 9th century. Ibn Fadlan was an Iraqi diplomat who traveled to the Volga Bulghars in 921–922 to spread Islam. His account is considered the richest source of information about the Rūs, and includes descriptions of their route, trade goods, and burial rituals:

Description
Ibn Fadlan describes the Rūs as tall, with blond hair and ruddy skin. He also describes their ritualistic burial of a chieftain, which involved stripping the woman of her jewelry, making her drink an alcoholic liquid, and then strangling and stabbing her.

Trade
Ibn Fadlan describes the Rūs as traders who set up shop on the river banks, trading furs, amber, honey, swords, and slaves for luxury items and silver and gold.

Conversion
Ibn Fadlan mentions a group of people called "al-baringar", who he suggests may have converted to Islam.

Hygiene
Ibn Fadlan describes the Rūs as having no modesty when it came to defecating or urinating, and not washing themselves after intercourse or eating. He also describes a communal hygiene practice where each person would wash their hands and face in a bowl of water that was passed around to the next person.

The Rūs were descendants of Vikings who crossed the Baltic into present-day Russia and Ukraine. They traded with empires ruled from Baghdad and Constantinople, and penetrated as far east as Baghdad.

 

[surada]

I heard this version, but the derivation from "witing"(servant) seems to be more reliable.

Ibn Fadlan traveled with the Vikings in the 10th century.

Saudi Aramco World : Among the Norse Tribes: The Remarkable Account of Ibn Fadlan