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It's also more likely to stick for 'vikings' because their image is slightly attractive to a big minority of people. Which makes it quite insidious. On the oth
by rocqua 4y ago
It's also more likely to stick for 'vikings' because their image is slightly attractive to a big minority of people. Which makes it quite insidious.
On the other hand, I don't think many 'viking' / Scandinavian people are suffering actual discrimination in the current day. It's racism that misunderstands someones ancestors, without projecting it on their own person. Which seems a lot less harmful to me.
- vintermann 4y agoYes, the problem isn't that Danes or Norwegians get offended when you suggest a romanticized hyper-violent version of their ancestors. On the contrary, it's that some of them get a little too excited about it. And foreign "appropriators", too. Ukrainian ultranationalists, for instance, got really geared up over the theory that Odin was a historical person living near Azov (which the Norwegian adventurer and crank-historian Thor Heyerdahl claimed came from "As-Hov" or "home of the aesir"). If we could get foreign militias to wear slightly less neo-nazi insignia on their uniforms by getting the idea of "vikings" back on the ground, I'd say that would be great.