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[โ€“] PlaidBaron@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

Viking gonna viking

[โ€“] PugJesus@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 1 year 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.