I got really REALLY drunk with Norwegians once. One of the dudes got real serious at one point and said, “Lads. If we take lands in Ireland we can become LORDS.” Everyone looked stern and nodded.
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Did you invade Ireland?
I am now something called a “Jarl” which is not tax deductible but still pretty cool. The Irish government was GRUMPY about this though.
Yeah, don’t leave us hanging!
As a Norwegian fairly interested in fotball, I wish everyone could engage slightly less with fascist governments and corrupt organisations. We can do better than USA and FIFA.
Big discussion in Norway atm about this aesthetic-- kitsch? camp? vulgar? too aryan? to chauvinistic? or just too close to nazi symbolism for comfort?
https://www.dagbladet.no/sport/kritikkstorm-faen-sa-dum/84715979
Nazi symbolism?
That's like calling an Indian person with swastika a Nazi.
Good fun
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A severe lacking of beards. Clearly these are footballers and not Vikings they are cosplaying as. Its cute.
They probably have all their teeth too, and I bet none of them have intestinal worms. Certainly not Vikings.
Do you even live if you don't have intestinal worms? Smh my head
THESE are the faces of men cohabiting with intestinal worms
Beard or no, I don't think I'd want to run into Haaland on a battlefield.
That whole northern viking folklore is actually kind of insane if you know that the whole game of the vikings was to sail to other countries, loot & pillage and to murder, rape & enslave people.
Lots of famous historical figures did just that.
Kinda frowned upon these, but back then was all the rage!
Significantly fewer poorly defended, costal monastaries in england these days... I wonder why?
But only kinda
I doubt they were that dense. If they could get the loot without killing, maybe even the villagers carrying it to their ship, they would do so and come back in the next harvesting season.
But who knows.
Yeah, the vikings PR team is only surpassed by regular pirates and the British royal family.
Well hey, if pirates and mafia characters can be popular why can't vikings.
It's a vibe
This reminds me of a Netflix series called Norsemen - a somewhat slow moving, very dry comedy about vikings. Worth watching!
It's a good show!
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