This is like the wet blankets who always point out that Vikings didn't wear horns on their helmets. I'm like, "Dude, shut the fuck up! You are going to ruin the fun!"
Then I give him a wedgie as I rape and pillage his monastery while wearing my horned helmet.
Viking is a verb: "to go viking" - "to go raiding". In Norway we call these years the Viking Age and this guy can go fuck himself. He is technically correct when he says there never existed a viking and that's because it is a term we use today do describe a group of norse people - militias, farmers, carpenters, fishermen - who gathered in raiding parties/viking parties. Today we call them Vikings even thought they never referred to themselves as Vikings.
I hope he necks himself.
*Viking is not just a verb, also a noun and so on. I just wanted to point it out since most people think of Viking as solely a referanse to a people and time period.
Is there any linguistic connection between "Viking" and the fact that some high-latitude places have names ending with "-vik"?
Some examples are Reykjavik in Iceland and Inuvik in Canada. It seems at least clear enough that those names came from the same settlers, and if those were also what we now call Vikings then perhaps this "historian" wasn't fully technically correct either.
I'm not sure, but "vik" in Norwegian means "cove", "inlet", "bay", etc., and norse towns and farms were centered around these places. So there is probably some connection between "vik" sea related terms and phrases. Can't speak for Inuvik, but Reykjavik directly translated to English is "bay of smoke"
Wow, that's very similar to what the spaniards called what is now the harbor of los angeles when they first got here. Only their version is more mexicanner sounding.
[ - ] yesiknow 1 point 2.9 yearsJun 5, 2022 08:17:59 ago (+1/-0)
The polar regions are connected. The Ainu in Japan The Innu in Canada. The Natives in Greenland are indistinguishable from the Northern Canadian Natives.
The West Coast Natives look like Hawaiians. The prairie natives look more like they came up from the south, and have a body type more like Caucasian ectomorph/mesomorph.
[ - ] UncleDoug 1 point 2.9 yearsJun 5, 2022 09:30:00 ago (+1/-0)
“Calling such people ‘Vikings’ would be like calling 18th-century British, French or Dutch naval officers ‘pirates’ simply because they wore vaguely similar hats and sailed vaguely similar ships to Blackbeard,” he writes.
But pirates did sail vaguely similar ships, and wore similar clothes, raiding familiar targets in similar ways.
I'm sure he'll get to the point eventually in his 300-page thesis on why the word Viking makes him pissy.
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I'm like, "Dude, shut the fuck up! You are going to ruin the fun!"
Then I give him a wedgie as I rape and pillage his monastery while wearing my horned helmet.
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[ - ] Master_Foo 3 points 2.9 yearsJun 5, 2022 06:32:24 ago (+3/-0)
This counts toward your "thing I learned today" goal! Congratulations!
Now excuse me while I skull fuck this kidnaped priest while wearing my horned helmet.
[ + ] lord_nougat
[ - ] lord_nougat 1 point 2.9 yearsJun 5, 2022 13:35:09 ago (+1/-0)
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[ - ] olinneserpona 8 points 2.9 yearsJun 5, 2022 05:54:01 ago (+8/-0)*
He is technically correct when he says there never existed a viking and that's because it is a term we use today do describe a group of norse people - militias, farmers, carpenters, fishermen - who gathered in raiding parties/viking parties. Today we call them Vikings even thought they never referred to themselves as Vikings.
I hope he necks himself.
*Viking is not just a verb, also a noun and so on. I just wanted to point it out since most people think of Viking as solely a referanse to a people and time period.
[ + ] SithEmpire
[ - ] SithEmpire 2 points 2.9 yearsJun 5, 2022 06:19:10 ago (+2/-0)
Some examples are Reykjavik in Iceland and Inuvik in Canada. It seems at least clear enough that those names came from the same settlers, and if those were also what we now call Vikings then perhaps this "historian" wasn't fully technically correct either.
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[ - ] olinneserpona 5 points 2.9 yearsJun 5, 2022 06:31:21 ago (+5/-0)
Can't speak for Inuvik, but Reykjavik directly translated to English is "bay of smoke"
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[ + ] yesiknow
[ - ] yesiknow 1 point 2.9 yearsJun 5, 2022 08:17:59 ago (+1/-0)
The West Coast Natives look like Hawaiians. The prairie natives look more like they came up from the south, and have a body type more like Caucasian ectomorph/mesomorph.
[ + ] yesiknow
[ - ] yesiknow 1 point 2.9 yearsJun 5, 2022 08:12:17 ago (+1/-0)
Prostituting education should be a capital offence.
[ + ] UncleDoug
[ - ] UncleDoug 1 point 2.9 yearsJun 5, 2022 09:30:00 ago (+1/-0)
But pirates did sail vaguely similar ships, and wore similar clothes, raiding familiar targets in similar ways.
I'm sure he'll get to the point eventually in his 300-page thesis on why the word Viking makes him pissy.
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