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If Vikings imitated/emulated the Romans in their funerary practices, arguably they did the same in their living practices too. If that's the case, why are the V
by hillsboroughman 4y ago
If Vikings imitated/emulated the Romans in their funerary practices, arguably they did the same in their living practices too. If that's the case, why are the Vikings persistently dissed, at least in popular culture, as uncouth, violent, hard drinking, fornicating barbarians?
As a resident of New Jersey, I feel for the Vikings.
- pluc 4y agobecause history is written by the victors
- Hikikomori 4y agoOr the surviving victims of viking raids that wrote down what happened, probably a bit biased and without any real knowledge of viking society.
- krapp 4y agoBecause they weren't Christians.
- vintermann 4y agoIt's not dissing. The people who portray them as such like them as such, thinking it's badass. The past is a foreign country, as they say. It may be oddly familiar in some ways, it may even feel better in a few ways, but most of all it's strange. Alien, even, when we're talking as long as go as the Norse Vikings lived. It can never be a home. It's safe to say that those Norse people who built the faux Roman, faux ancient grave 1000 years ago, were as naive about this as Viking idolizers are today.
- idlehand 4y agoRome was a warrior culture too, especially in the beginning. Even their sports were bloody and gruesome, with people being maimed and dying for the enjoyment of the population.
- bergenty 4y agoAll those qualities are things to be proud of in my book. Those are desirable and masculine.