> The author is attempting to use linguistic pedantry to delegitimize an ethnicity he doesn't like for contemporary ideological reasons. The point of the autho

> The author is attempting to use linguistic pedantry to delegitimize an ethnicity he doesn't like for contemporary ideological reasons. The point of the author is that casting all norsemen as vikings is factually wrong, and that further wrong is done by the use of this historic falsehood as a basis for political movements. At the same point in time, a large part of Europe was under the control of the frankish empire. Despite that, we don't describe people from this area as bloodthirsty warriors out for tributes and land conquest. We are able to realize that only a small part of the feudal society took part in these raids, and we have lots of historic material on other aspects of this society. This is what is missing in the history we tell of the nordic society.