Viking Helmet With Horns Not True

[longknife]

According to BBC online, the Vikings did not terrify Europe and were actually peaceful settlers most of the time.

It becomes a story about not just conquest but immigration and assimilation. Many of the Vikings embraced Christianity. There was intermarriage. King Cnut, who became King of England and ruled for 25 years, replaced those at the top but allowed society to go on as before. At the same time they held on to Norse names and traditions. "My view is that there was a good deal of give and take," Townend says.

So, what were they? Terrible raiders who raped and pillaged? Or explorers and settlers? As always, history is frequently revised as more information is unearthed. This is a long article but worth reading for history buffs. It can be found @ BBC News - Were the Vikings really so bloodthirsty?

 

[waltky]

Was prob'ly one o' Granny's great-great-grandmothers...

Scientists Say DNA Tests Show Viking Warrior Was Female
September 11, 2017 — Scientists say DNA tests on a skeleton found in a lavish Viking warrior's grave in Sweden show the remains are those of a woman in her 30s.

While bone experts had long suspected the remains belong to a woman, the idea had previously been dismissed despite other accounts supporting the existence of female Viking warriors. Swedish researchers used new methods to analyze genetic material from the 1,000-year-old bones at a Viking-era site known as Birka, near Stockholm.

A DNA double helix is seen in an undated artist's illustration released by the National Human Genome Research Institute​

Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson of Uppsala University said Monday the tests show "it is definitely a woman." Hedenstierna-Jonson said the grave is particularly well-furnished, with a sword, shields, various other weapons and horses.

Writing in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, the researchers say it's the first confirmed remains of a high-ranking female Viking warrior.

Scientists Say DNA Tests Show Viking Warrior Was Female

 

[whitehall]

Organic material deteriorates slightly faster than the liberal brains of pop archaeologists and anthropologists who spend time trying to rewright history.

 

[AVISSSER]

The Viking horns were a Wagner, operatic thing. However, in the Nordic countries they embrace the myth fully.

 

[Syriusly]

According to BBC online, the Vikings did not terrify Europe and were actually peaceful settlers most of the time.

It becomes a story about not just conquest but immigration and assimilation. Many of the Vikings embraced Christianity. There was intermarriage. King Cnut, who became King of England and ruled for 25 years, replaced those at the top but allowed society to go on as before. At the same time they held on to Norse names and traditions. "My view is that there was a good deal of give and take," Townend says.

So, what were they? Terrible raiders who raped and pillaged? Or explorers and settlers? As always, history is frequently revised as more information is unearthed. This is a long article but worth reading for history buffs. It can be found @ BBC News - Were the Vikings really so bloodthirsty?

From the same article

The correction to "cuddly" Vikings had gone too far, says Prof Simon Keynes, an Anglo-Saxon historian at Cambridge University. "There's no question how nasty, unpleasant and brutish they were. They did all that the Vikings were reputed to have done."

They stole anything they could. Churches were repositories of treasure to loot. They took cattle, money and food. It's likely they carried off women, too, he says. "They'd burn down settlements and leave a trail of destruction." It was unprovoked aggression. And unlike most armies, they came by sea, their narrow-bottomed longships allowing them to travel up rivers and take settlements by surprise. It was maritime blitzkrieg at first.

Worse was the repeat nature of the raids. The Vikings, like burglars returning over and over again to the same houses, refused to leave places alone.

 

[AVISSSER]

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According to BBC online, the Vikings did not terrify Europe and were actually peaceful settlers most of the time.

It becomes a story about not just conquest but immigration and assimilation. Many of the Vikings embraced Christianity. There was intermarriage. King Cnut, who became King of England and ruled for 25 years, replaced those at the top but allowed society to go on as before. At the same time they held on to Norse names and traditions. "My view is that there was a good deal of give and take," Townend says.

So, what were they? Terrible raiders who raped and pillaged? Or explorers and settlers? As always, history is frequently revised as more information is unearthed. This is a long article but worth reading for history buffs. It can be found @ BBC News - Were the Vikings really so bloodthirsty?

From the same article

The correction to "cuddly" Vikings had gone too far, says Prof Simon Keynes, an Anglo-Saxon historian at Cambridge University. "There's no question how nasty, unpleasant and brutish they were. They did all that the Vikings were reputed to have done."

They stole anything they could. Churches were repositories of treasure to loot. They took cattle, money and food. It's likely they carried off women, too, he says. "They'd burn down settlements and leave a trail of destruction." It was unprovoked aggression. And unlike most armies, they came by sea, their narrow-bottomed longships allowing them to travel up rivers and take settlements by surprise. It was maritime blitzkrieg at first.

Worse was the repeat nature of the raids. The Vikings, like burglars returning over and over again to the same houses, refused to leave places alone.

Well, maybe it's karmic justice that their lands are now being raided by savages from the sea who refuse to leave.