Vikings were terrifying

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They were also slave and sex slave traders. Some even say they were the Philistines

Not traditionally, and not to any great extent before advanced sailboat shipbuilding techniques of the 1400s or so.

The concept of a Holy Trinity of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost was originally the Vikings' or Aryans' (white people's) interpretation of the Christian religion as it was revealed to them.

There is too much the lady to the Roman Catholic religion, which the Vikings rejected with stories of a lady's beard, the loud footfalls of a cat and other things that ought not to be.

They maintained trade routes to the Middle East whereto they sold the young blonde girls.

Read Ibn Fadal.. He lived with them and kept a journal. The Vikings often had Arab navigators.

Don´t mind. Surely life in the Middle East was way better than staying in the longhouse with the cattle.

The Vikings loved gold and gemstones and the Arabs loved their furs. The Arabs also had to Kamal for navigation.

At the time the Arabs had megacities, books, canalization and civil rights. Northern folks dwelled in their evil-smelling shitholes at this time.

True, but it is fascinating to read Ibn Fadal's account of traveling with the Vikings. He isn't prejudiced against them and views them with acceptance and curiosity.

The Vikings in the East | ASNC Viking Age

The Vikings in the East | ASNC Viking Age

www.asncvikingage.com

The most well-known Arabic account of the Volga Vikings, however, was that of Ahmad ibn Fadlan, who travelled to the Volga Bulghars (Turkic inhabitants of the lands north of the Black Sea) in 921–922 to spread the Muslim faith to them. Along the way, ibn Fadlan encountered the ‘Rusiya’ (as he called the Rus’), famously describing their ritualistic burial of one of their chieftains.

 

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Ibn Fadlan: An Arab Among the Vikings of Russia ...

https://www.encyclopedia.com/.../ibn-fadlan-arab-among-vikings-russia

• In 921, the Arab traveler Ahmad ibn Fadlan (fl. 920s) went on a diplomatic mission to what is now Russia. There he encountered numerous Turkic peoples, among them the Khazars, one of the few groups in history outside of Israel to adopt Judaism. But perhaps the most memorable passages in the Risala, his account of his journeys, concern the Varangians, a group of Vikings known by a term that would eventually become the name of the surrounding country itself: Rus.

 

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Viking axe.

 

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I'm unsure whether to be afraid...or aroused right now.

 

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"Vikings" were an active part of the worldwide, history-long male death cult of viciousness. The pattern has been repeating since the first armed bands used their temporary strength of youth to dominate others. It is part of human capacity, a mirror image of the immense constructive capacity. It could be called a plague.

 

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Viking weapons

 

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Vendel era helmet, Sweden.

In Swedish prehistory , the Vendel Period (c. 540-790) comes between the Migration Period and the Viking Age

 

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SKOL!

 

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I'm unsure whether to be afraid...or aroused right now.

Definitely afraid.

 

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Viking chair reproduction

 

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So Finland (old Scandanavia) they have an old time instrument called a Kantele from the old Europe world. Here is some Scandanavian forest music using the Viking Kantele...there is a stream that runs through the forest, at least in my mind.