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A viking is a seaborn plunderer and pillager that would put a pirate to shame
Um..but they don't, do they? There is not one historical record that shows us that Vikings engaged in piracy on the seas, and nothing really to even suggest their vessels were capable of such offensive action. Common myth, blended with ah ealthy dose of Victorian hyperbole, gives us the image of the vikings as a perptually warlike race of pillaging bastards, when the reality is that the majority of the vikings who came over the seas did so to settle. The Viking 'invasion', was really just an extended program of settling and breeding with the natives. The horned helmet is a Victorian myth, and comes from the mistaken impression that the earguards (which could fold up) were horns, or sometimes wings. Vikings did not have peg-legs, were not noted for their sodomy upon the high seas, and - most of all - actually displayed an advanced understanding of navigation, whereas ture pirates rarely have the slightest clue where they're going.
The Viking > Ninja rebuff I leave to somebody else. |
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