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terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Vikings were successful with other countries women cuz they did basic hygiene. Shaved, washed, some hair stuff. They ‘conquered’ just from cleanliness. If Vikings aren’t manly enough idk what this kid is on about lol.
wischi@programming.dev 3 days ago
Didn’t they kidnap and rape them?
argarath@lemmy.world 3 days ago
With the way historians kept interpreting blatant homosexual relationships through history as just “great friendships” I don’t trust generalizations in any direction. One could def claim that the woman were being kidnapped because no woman would choose to leave all the manly man they knew at home, no no. But it could also have legitimately happened, that many/most were kidnapped and raped, but we might never know for sure. Hell, most of the things we know from the vikings has already been altered way back then by christians rewriting their legends and stories, there’s so much reinterpretation and biases behind written stories about ancient civilizations it’s almost impossible to conclusively say anything about people