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History channel's "Vikings" is actually a quite good remedy for your GoT withdrawals. As a Dane, and even after reading this article, I find the series very acc
by MrJagil 12y ago
History channel's "Vikings" is actually a quite good remedy for your GoT withdrawals. As a Dane, and even after reading this article, I find the series very accurate, only embellished in obvious places (blood eagle, mushrooms etc).
At the least they got the scandinavian personality traits right.
- buttcoinslol 12y agoI doubt that hallucinogenic mushrooms were used as a catalyst for berserker rage, but evidence of A. muscaria use among older populations in Siberia and perhaps Lapland exists. I think it is possible that A. muscaria use happened among the Viking population for religious/ritual use.
- rmc 12y agoIt's a great show and I love it. But apparently it's historically inaccurate about the "there are no lands to the west" (the norse knew about Britain before the raid on lindisfarne), and apparently Viking society wasn't that totalitarian, and had a bit more of a democratic system