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It's hard to know what they would think. It probably depends if you asked one who stayed home at the farm, someone who mostly raided, or someone who travelled a
by Epa095 2y ago
It's hard to know what they would think. It probably depends if you asked one who stayed home at the farm, someone who mostly raided, or someone who travelled and traded a lot.
No viking visiting 10th century Baghdad would think 'the white man is clearly superior and is meant to govern the other races'.
My impression is that viking culture mostly could not afford decadent beliefs like racism. They raided their white neighbour, and if they somehow managed to get a hold of a black thrall with useful skills, they would take advantage of those skills. Similarly to how many women had decent rights. Not because they were 'woke', it was just practical.
An important source of income was the slave trade, where they got white slaves from Europe and sold them to the southern countries (Orthodox Byzantine Empire and the Islamic Middle Eastern Caliphate). So they were inclusive in the sense that they would sell their victims to slavery independently of the color of their skin ;-)