Reply To: WHtOW – fluff and does it make sense ?

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I will certainly agree that we don’t need any more Viking FICTION.

Because that’s what 99% of all the books, movies, TV shows and games are.

Hostile, alien propaganda, designed to make northern Europeans appear as ignorant, superstitious, brutal savages, all part of the culture war we are in.

What we do need are FACTUAL depictions of one of the most capable, intelligent , adventurous and heroic people to ever walk the Earth. Factual depictions that tell the truth about how the so-called ‘Viking Age’ even started: By Charlemagne slaughtering their southern cousins, the Saxons, and destroying their sacred groves. Factual depictions about Northmen sailing the north Atlantic – one of the most hostile stretches of water  in the world – against prevailing wind patterns and founding colonies in empty Iceland, almost empty Greenland and almost empty Vinland (Newfoundland) at a time when most everyone else were scared to venture more than a few miles offshore in the placid waters of the Med or the Red sea.

Factual depictions of the superior weapons, armor and tactics of these ‘ignorant savages’, which often prevailed against much larger ‘civilized’ forces. Never mind the achievements of more modern day Vikings, the scientists, philosophers, writers, poets, physicians and other such highly skilled people from Norway, Sweden and Denmark.

You’re bored with the crap about them on TV ? So am I, buddy, so am I……