The photo shows the Norwegian Football Team ready to embark to the USA for the World Cup. It's seen as a bit of harmless fun.
BUT, here's a more serious one, Why are Scandinavian people proud of their raping and pillaging past? Let's be honest Vikings weren't good people, as well as the raping and pillaging they took whole villages into slavery to sell as far as the middle east.
Yet go anywhere in the world where people claim Scandinavian heritage and they're always proud of their theiving rapist ancestors.
OK, most countries have a slightly dodgy history but you don't see the German football team dressing as Nazis do you?
Vikings made an enduring name for themselves in the 8th through the 11th centuries for being tactical warriors, smart traders, and daring explorers. In fact, they arrived in America 1,000 years before Columbus ever did, and archeologists have found some of their remnants scattered as far east as Russia. They attacked places all along the coasts of Scotland, England, Ireland, France, Italy and inland Russia. They terrorized, plundered, explored, engaged in trade, and finally settled and farmed all over the lands they encountered.
For most of the men who went a-viking, it was only part time. When a Viking wasn’t busy farming, they left their farms and went raiding. They often returned in time for harvest in the fall. Raiding was very profitable, however, and many farmers became full time raiders.
Vikings were also fearless explorers who actually reached North America, making them the first Europeans to discover America. They settled Iceland and tried to colonize Greenland. They were also shrewd and competent traders and merchants, trading goods of the north – furs, amber, iron and timber – for goods of the south – silver, gold, silks and spices. And all along the trade routes, the Vikings traded in slaves. But who didn't back then?
They were skilled metal workers, including with iron, and made exquisite jewelry
Their advanced ships and navigation techniques provided the means and skills for sailing not only over open ocean out of the sight of land but also far up inland rivers into the interior of other countries.
Within the male-dominated Viking society, women had a certain amount of personal power, depending on their social status. When Viking men were away from home—raiding, fishing, exploring or on trading missions—women in Viking society took over all the men’s work as well as doing their own. Women were valuable members of the society and it was shameful for a man to harm a woman.
Women in Viking society had more power than most other European women of the time. They could divorce their husbands, own property and sell their own handicrafts. Some women became wealthy landowners. Others participated in trade. Even a few weapons were found in female graves, giving the notion that some women were fighters along side of their men.
The Norse washed weekly, usually on Saturdays, which was extremely rare in medieval Europe. They combed their hair and beards daily. Archaeological digs across Scandinavia, England, and Ireland frequently uncover grooming tools like bone/antler combs, tweezers, and ear-picks. They frequently changed their clothes, wore colorful fabrics, and accessorized with jewelry that caught the eye.
In savagery, Vikings were no worse that most first millennium like the Germanic tribes who moved west into France and England, or Huns or other people around the world. It's funny that the British of all people would criticize the Vikings. Typical Anglocentrism.
At least Vikings assimilated when they settled down, enriched the local cultures, and didn't set about ethnically cleansing or imposing their culture by force.
Anyway, it makes sense for people to take pride in their Viking heritage. Everybody respects bad ass warriors, not to mention explorers. Plus, Vikings were clean, well groomed, relatively tall, and sexy.
Being of Irish ancestry, I am proud of my bad-ass, ancient, pre-Christian heritage and all those who resisted English attempts to steal their land and wipe out their culture. And I think it's cool that there is a bit of Norse in my blood.
Ok well let's put it across this way to you since you inherently hate historical European cultures.
There were rapists in every culture and civilization. Infact the "indigenous" groups that leftists fetishise so much often do not understand the concept of rape to begin with.
In ancient societies conquering successfully men generally liked to get women. Many of these conquerors themselves were criminals and outcasts from home because people didn't have prison systems back then.
So you had gangs of men often wearing predator first, usually bears, wolf's and felines aswell as other similar warband cultures of "god bands" going spiking their hair and going into battle.
If you actually understood and researched these cultures you'd understand this comes from a Koryos tradition. I bet you have Germanic (Teutonic) ancestry yourself yet your lack of knowledge would result in you not drawing the connection between that and the "Norse" culture (a culture that never existed and academics invented to just lump a Germanic linguistic group in Scandinavia together).
All of the evidence points to the English having a shared sea-faring, warrior tradition, linguistic influence (even before the Viking age) religious mythology together.
So anyone who is proud of "Viking heritage" is merely showing appreciation for the original traditions of their people going back to a time era.
You have just generalised an entire society as rapists because you are a ignorant Christian who has no sympathy for white people. Yet you would never be caught with this same careless categorisation of people of you had said it about any other racial group but the European ones.
Even the Romans (look up Romulus and Remus and the rape of the Sabine women, who ended up supporting their Roman husbands in the end), Turks, Mongols, Native Americans, Slavs, Celts, Greeks all had their own versions of the "Koryos" traditions that provide the origins for the werewolves, vampires, zombies and wendigos of our mythology (all coming from the same concept).
Lastly it's not us men's fault that you women are highly selective. You do not like ugly men who act rapey but you don't mind that same behaviour from a guy of you're single and fond him attractive.
Therefore it's made the natural order by your own desires for men who have no status or chance to go out and produce offspring with women he captures from his raids. It's a logical conclusion and it is likely why women often fantasies about being swept off their feet by werewolves, vampires, demons and other "naughty boy" types.
If you're disturbed by that then be disturbed by 65% of women having a rape fetish and 80% of them having had a rape fantasy before. Be disturbed that men like me were honourable for all their lives & attractive, but you often leave us as virgins throughout our 20's so you women when you're in your prime (20's) can get a touch of the bad-boy types before settling with someone "nicer" like me (which is why having a virgin wife is highly desirable for me as I'm not a cuck).
No matter where your from your ancestors likely did the same thing and believed in a similar warrior tradition the vikings had, because otherwise you'd be dead and your bloodline would've gone extinct from competition.
Looking back this question further pisses me off because of the fact that in Germanic mythology, people are devoured in a pit of snakes in hell for committing adultery. Infact the Romans like Tacitus commented on just how virtuous and guarded the Germanic people were when it came to sexuality with praise. The later Christianised Romans even considered the pagan Teutonic people to be more pious then themselves when it comes to sexuality. But your mind has been warped by an academic obsession with the bad things Vikings did. Many of our Viking ancestors in England actually fought off other Vikings & assisted the English against Norman invasion (which was much more culturally destructive with a touch of genocide against us Englishmen). Harold Godwinson himself was descended from Viking adventurers and so was William the Conquerer too. So clearly whatever the Vikings were doing that remained from their Pagan worldview was working. This is the exact same mentality our ancestors had when they tore apart the Roman Empire and established modern Europe from it's corpse. The Roman Empire was an oppressive tax obsessed theocracy, so people actually supported strongman Germanic rulers over corrupt Roman administrators.
Look up the Sutton Hop ship. That ship was an Early English war vessel, showing us what the English, Saxons and Jutes were using way. You can see that the North-Sea Germanic (our main ancestors as Englishmen) clearly established the way of life and boat technology that later evolved into the vikings. North-Sea Germanic and North Germanic (Norse) were very mutually intelligible even compared to other Germanic languages. Many material culture can be found repeated across northern Germany into Denmark and Sweden, like the same style of helmets, thrones, knotwork & their iconic "abstract tribal aesthetic" you find on their Bracteates (worth looking up). We also found myths in England about Beowulf, a hero the Anglo Saxons highly venerated as one of their own ideal mythic figures... yet they felt no contradiction in the fact that Beowulf was a Geat (a Scandinavian Goth) because they recognised shared blood. There is also two kings from both Anglo Saxon and Nordic sources who were brothers, known as Angul and Dan. These brothers were said to be the fathers of England & Denmark. In the danish sources Angul is depicted as one of the historical Dane rulers of Angeln despite the fact a modern academic draws this arbitrary border between "Norse" (again an identity that never existed) and English cultures because they don't want us to develop a racial consciousness. This is because our Toucan elites are obsessed with making sure we don't become bad gentiles and start developing a racial consciousness & identity that gives white people any semblance of power or unity that other ethnic groups are allowed to have.
Honestly, obsessing over the sins of dead folks is, like, a super massive sin of hypocritical judgment! Because of the sin in your own heart, God will probably trap your soul on this, like, frozen, isolated lake in the dead of winter. Then, this towering, unstoppable figure wearing a rotting, hollowed-out deer skull is gonna drag you out onto the ice by your hair. Then, God's wrath literally freezes the air in your lungs. After that, He fires up this jagged, rusted, gas-powered ice auger and slowly drill it right into your midsection! He'll just stand there in the dead silence, grinding your insides into a freezing, bloody, agonizing ice slushie for being so sinful like this.
Slaughtering others is always better than being slaughtered.
"OK, most countries have a slightly dodgy history but you don't see the German football team dressing as Nazis do you?" No. they sing just forbidden national anthem and keep their arm up
It’s an understatement to characterize histories as “slightly dodgy”. With limited exceptions, if you are alive, your ancestors did some VERY “dodgy” sh*t. As a species, we’re not nearly as evolved as you think we are. Life is extremely difficult for most species and it wasn’t that long ago that life was extremely difficult for ancient humans. There was likely an unimaginable amount of r*pe and murder. Study chimpanzees for a year. They are absolutely savage beasts and widely recognized as our closest relatives in the natural order. Wars have waged for eons even before we started drawing imaginary lines on the Earth and recording our victories and losses. As an absolute fact of evolutionary biology, if you are alive today, your ancestors did whatever they had to do in order to survive, even if it meant others did not survive. It is the most arbitrary form of false moral superiority to chastise “others” for their ancestors’ survival when yours did exactly the same. The “good” people who were peaceful at all costs were wiped out. They have no descendants. There are no exceptions.
Why wouldn't they be. They reached places no great empire ever did, built cities all over Britain and Ireland, defended Christianity from the muslims and their successors in Russia, Ukraine, Ireland, france, Normandy, scily, the holy land, greece, spain etc became very wealthy and powerful with legacies that last to today. They only left America 40 years before columbus sailed. They left a legacy of great legends, heroes and warriors known to us even today.
well... it's been said often by random groups of I don't know who...
both the Mexican national anthem, and the French (La Marseillaise) are two of the most beautiful national anthems, and they both have one thing in common...
which is to take pride in their bloody history of conflict and also a promise... the promise of gutting you out and stomp you to the ground till you're part of the national soil if they dare to invade again, lol...
you'll see it very soon, all over the World Cup...
People are proud of the shields, the ships, the conquering of distant lands. The David vs Goliath battles won. Their technology, culture and success which was ahead of it's time.
To me this is like going up to a Muslim and asking why are you proud of arranged marriages and fucking 12 year Olds?
Like there's a lot of other stuff too 😂
It reminds me of the cranberry sandwich Starbucks comes out with around Christmas every year. I have to pick out the berry's because they don't belong in anything I eat ever. But once I take them out. Im free to enjoy and appreciate the turkey and tomato and uhhh... I'm pretty sure it has a pesto of some kind. It's been a while since I had one they're like $10.
Now if rapists started dressing like vikings we might have a problem.
It’s more about Vikings as a “persona”, rather than standing by the heritage ig.
Pointed horn helmets, shields, ready for battle, masculine, rugged, badass ships that could spit fire, traveling on the seas exploring new lands, gang of hairy men, fighting for survival, hunting fish, etc. sounds so cool and awesome, but carries a controversial history perhaps given the whole raping and pillaging part that gets overlooked.
Anyways, if someone associates themselves with The Nazis yeahhh there’s no defense of that given the Holocaust, Concentration Camps, World Domination, and Evil Ideology.
Point being, Vikings did explore new lands and find themselves in regions that led to descendants in those regions to form and always think back to the ancestors that brought them there. You can kinda take the fantastical version and make it into something to be proud of, while also combating the negatives of their own history and culture too.
We romanticize blood-thirst, savagery and war. Until it is experienced or actual pictures are viewed. The Vikings attacked the weak such as monasteries which also had small treasures. They raided which meant coming ashore without warning and killing, raping and stealing. If people could view videos of who the victims were, their lives and then how they were murdered people wouldn’t be so proud of them. My clan fought against them successfully in Ireland. But now interestingly enough, the UK is being invaded again by those that are “coming ashore without warning and killing, raping and stealing”. But the UK does not fight back. Darwinism at a country level. Things will be very bad for some who have to take the brunt of the assault… the Henry’s, the raped, the psychologically scared. But we have videos and their stories but we don’t care yet.
Ok. So back during those days ur saying that only the vikings did this? Smh. Back then, that's how u survived. I'm not justifying anything, but if that's how u were raised, seen it all around you, how would u know it's wrong? They raped woman and murdered villages. But it wasn't just the vikings that did this. Look at Roman's they raped any 1. They didn't care. Boys Girls women men. They werent picky. U can pick 'A PEOPLE' who ever, trace back their history and somewhere along the line, ull see it there to.
The Vikings showed power, the kind of power the Norwegian football team will need if they want to do anything in the World Cup. Norway is in a tough group with France, Senegal and Iraq. It will be a major achievement if Norway finishes second to France and advances to the knockout stage.
... Is there even one country that does not sit on piles of blood, bones and rapes though? Aside from some autarkic tribe somewhere in Siberia
Vikings, as suggested in the comments already, I guess it's selective memory, wanting to make things great again because working at the office is not epic enough. Wanting to be badass not realizing it implies being a psycho lol
I see ut as the result of a couple of popular shows on TV. Vikings on History channel. It started in 2013 and cut like 7 seasons. Then there came The Last Kingdom. Its about the Britts and the Danes. Huge popularity and heck, who doesn't want to be a viking!
Whether we like it or not, Vikings, as many other people and cultures, are part of our history. And particularly in the case of many sports, as football precisely, where combat is involved, it seems logic to me for teams to take over the striking symbols of their national past. So, why not those of the Vikings for the Norwegians?
Every group has a raping and pillaging past, But why do only white groups need to be constantly reminded of there's while while reminding other groups is viewed as hateful vilification? a lot of colored groups have a raping and pillaging present that needs much more urgent attention. These white self hate grifts aren't flying anymore. Acknowledging this might possibly save you from looking like a hypocrite but i figure you will double down on your antiwhite self hatred.
Because nothing says 'proud masculinity' like bragging about a hairy, axe-wielding barbarian who couldn't bathe while simultaneously ignoring his wife to go kill someone.
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Because I’m a Viking they are proud people strong powerful warriors. Those are my people you’re talking to big daddy Swede here I support my people. We are the cream of the crop
Why do I get this feeling now that I’ve read your question that is was meant for me? Because I told you that we’re in the World Cup my country. 😀 being a wise guy and your country is not in it. And I sent you a question on who’s your favorite tough guy on gag. So this is backlash. 😂
I think it's perfectly fine for anyone to be proud of their heritage. It's not like any group if people is free of the dark realities of humanity no matter how much we like to pretend.
Look at England what they have done all these centuries attacking slaughtering rapping people. When I first posted in here, I didn’t read the part about the insult about the Vikings.
#Iron_man arguably the English done all that because they are descended from violent criminals. They're a mix of viking, saxon, angles, etc all of who attacked and slaughtered. They are a violent mongrol race by breeding.
@Iron_Man bro most women who use the internet outside of instagram and tik tok are retarded. I have come to realize this after seeing too many of them chimp out like this.
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