I just like early British history tbh. Surprised by how important the influence of the Scandinavians has been

@AstroTorch Saxons or?

i need to read more, i think ive forgotten all the old stories and stuff

Canute, hardrada, godwinson etc

The danelaw

Angles aye

they're a bit more interesting

England doesn't really become a thing without vikings

gave East Anglia it's name

Without the influence of the vikings I mean

Vikings are huge in Europe

the Normans of 1066 are vikings

Literally just typing that haha

made up a large part of the Byzantine Verangian guard too

Getting outside my reading there

basically the Emperor's guard, like the Kings Guard from Game of Thrones

Problem with praising Vikings is it draws out fat autistics who listen to black metal and buy drinking horns off the internet that think they’re vikings

like the swiss guard for the pope?

I think there was an amon amarth song about that

Pursuit of Vikings aye

Vikings tended to be well integrated by the end of the 10th century though, kinda sad

Those fat incels could never be real Viking’s, bet they don’t even rape random monks

lol

But yeah 'viking' is a very lose term that's useful for brevity I mean 'peoples from the modern regions of Scandinavia/Norway/Denmark that liked to raid and invade shit now and then'

yeah

Viking was probably an 'activity'

Like it's a verb, you'd go out viking

like you went 'Viking'

I'm going to go "a viking" my pantry for food.

or something like that.

Ur ma’s always viking my cock

#NeverForgetLindasfarne

I'm going to viking the servers whiteys post in <#418503124001488896>

Wait calling for viks is against tos

@Jim Probably needs the money.

@Potato Man Reason I was asking, just wanted to school someone on facebook, as he was compared the UK/Fracnce/USA to Russia, saying we did just as bad things if n ot a lot worse compared to Russia

LOL so just schooled him I'll send you the Paragraph I send him if you wish

@Dimorac there's blood on everyone's hands

Oh yeah don't ge tme wrong there completely is blood on everyones hands

But no joke he is saying shit like The United Kingdom was a lot the devil himself

Think Russia was exceptional in how cheaply it treated the lives of it's own soldiers