What the fuck was their problem?
What the fuck was their problem?
They didn't have one. You either have problems or you are a problem, and they chose wisely.
Everyone else had lower tech
sharp sticks?
Don't forget the Goths before that.
We love seeking out new adventures.
That's why we are keen on inviting in imigrants to our bedrooms to test our wifes mettle.
When did they raid Italy and the Black Sea? I mean I’m not negating they did it’s just I’ve never heard of it I’d like to know more. We all already know about their raids in England, France and Russia
I know for sure they ruled Sicily for some time
On behalf of Russia and England I demand REPARATIONS.
these werent norse vikings per se, they were francophone normans.
More like the north was a poorly arable shithole during those times and people didn't want to starve to death. Can't blame em.
this
reparations must be payed, Sweden ya hear me? pay blyat
Dengi platy mne blyat
>poorly arable
Now it's getting enriched alright.
Sicily: when norman meets arab
Gib fertile clay, and women.
Those are the same years that Muslims were hammering Europe. Based Nordic Vikings (hail odin) took advantage of the chaos to do their own raiding. They routinely sold virgin boys and girls to be raped and made Eunuchs, taken away to Islamic homelands never to see their families again
Do not associate these achievements with the savages living in huts.
low agricultural tech and high population never ends well... At least in the short run
Sounds familiar?
It's not even really tied to "Scandinavians" really, Germanic peoples in general had been doing this shit for a long time, and many other groups in Europe.
Where they were from was cold AF and was terrible at supporting farming and herding, user. Vikings did it more out of desperation rather than greed from what I've read
It was a Germanic tradition and the Nords happened to be the last true Germanics after all the other had gone full christcuck so Europe was ripe for the picking.
Oh, svenbro, it would be funny if it weren't true.
Jeesus christ. Only one of those groups is human.