Yes, 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 tha

Yes, 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.