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[โ€“] PlaidBaron@lemmy.world 23 points 11 months ago (3 children)

It wasnt genocide I realize but didnt the Vikings engage in conflict with the Indigenous population?

[โ€“] Rusty@lemmy.ca 19 points 11 months ago

Viking gonna viking

[โ€“] PugJesus@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Historical figures can have a little conflict

as a treat

It's when they get so bad about it that their own contemporaries are disgusted by their behavior that "by the standards of their time" no longer applies.

[โ€“] Tomassci@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

tbh the population had conflict in of itself, so like participating in it is... explaiable. It becomes worse when you show up and round them all up.