The Vikings : Should They Be Forgiven?

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Re: The Vikings : Should They Be Forgiven?

Post by Svartalf » Mon May 16, 2016 3:08 pm

Forty Two wrote::prof: Maybe the Vikings should be forgiven. After all, Progressive archaeology has revealed that 1/2 of viking warriors were women, so, the Vikings were into equality way before it was cool. http://www.inquisitr.com/1467097/improv ... re-female/ and http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/hal ... e20331819/ :prof:
a) those sources look doubtful
b) if the vikings in those instances were invaders (i.e. settlers) rather than just raiders, then it's logical they should have brought their women with them, even if they were basically noncombatants
c) historical sources completely disagree with those "findings". historical sagas don't have women fighters, and even in legendary sagas, they are rare and borderline freakish.
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Re: The Vikings : Should They Be Forgiven?

Post by Forty Two » Mon May 16, 2016 3:29 pm

Of course they're doubtful. The assertion that 1/2 of viking warriors were women is absurd, and the studies cited don't even say that they were. However, a brief google and youtube search reveals various leftist progressive retards trying to claim that female warriors were all the rage in and around 800. it was just the evil Christians who put women in their place, whereas the pagans were downright feminist....
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Post by pErvinalia » Mon May 16, 2016 3:34 pm

Svartalf wrote:
Forty Two wrote::prof: Maybe the Vikings should be forgiven. After all, Progressive archaeology has revealed that 1/2 of viking warriors were women, so, the Vikings were into equality way before it was cool. http://www.inquisitr.com/1467097/improv ... re-female/ and http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/hal ... e20331819/ :prof:
a) those sources look doubtful
b) if the vikings in those instances were invaders (i.e. settlers) rather than just raiders, then it's logical they should have brought their women with them, even if they were basically noncombatants
c) historical sources completely disagree with those "findings". historical sagas don't have women fighters, and even in legendary sagas, they are rare and borderline freakish.
I've seen Vikings. Whatshisface's wife was a kick arse fighter!
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Re: The Vikings : Should They Be Forgiven?

Post by Svartalf » Mon May 16, 2016 3:52 pm

Shield maidens and other fighting women were an extreme rarity, if not a legend altogether.
and Vikings the tv series is about as historically accurate as the Tudors or GoT
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Post by pErvinalia » Mon May 16, 2016 3:54 pm

It's a documentary!
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Re: The Vikings : Should They Be Forgiven?

Post by Svartalf » Mon May 16, 2016 3:56 pm

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Re: The Vikings : Should They Be Forgiven?

Post by Forty Two » Mon May 16, 2016 3:57 pm

Svartalf wrote:Shield maidens and other fighting women were an extreme rarity, if not a legend altogether.
and Vikings the tv series is about as historically accurate as the Tudors or GoT
Indeed. I like the Vikings series on THC, but it's not good history in the least. I don't know why, but they put historical figures that lived generations apart from each other in the same shows. Not sure why.

And, the series didn't start off very well. It was strange that the existence of Britain was unknown to the vikings in the 790s, when the series starts. I mean, they knew it was there - it was no mystery.

But, it's a fun show.
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Re: The Vikings : Should They Be Forgiven?

Post by Scot Dutchy » Mon May 16, 2016 4:20 pm

THC is not history by any stretch of the imagination. Bloody christ existed according to them.
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Re: The Vikings : Should They Be Forgiven?

Post by DaveDodo007 » Mon May 16, 2016 11:22 pm

And that is called paying the Dane-geld; But we've proved it again and again, That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld You never get rid of the Dane.
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Re: The Vikings : Should They Be Forgiven?

Post by Brian Peacock » Mon May 16, 2016 11:46 pm

There ain't nothing like a Dane. Nothing in the world....
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