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Lindisfarne Island, June 8 in the year 793

A monastery burned down, killing all the monks. However, by an extraordinary stroke of luck, some passing vikings were able to save all the temple treasures.
 
HK.227 said:
A monastery burned down, killing all the monks. However, by an extraordinary stroke of luck, some passing vikings were able to save all the temple treasures.
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I think said treasure were the point of the raids.
 
A fascinating part of history. Vikings went on to be kings of both Ireland and England, inhabited Iceland and Greenland, and were granted Normandy by the French to stop attacking them.
 
Rumpelstil said:
satirical?
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Tongue in cheek, but only partially.
It mirrors the narrative that one day some pagans just started murdering Christians for no reason. That there was no prior history and that it just happened out of nowhere. (You know, like the Muslim narrative of the Crusades.)
 
HK.227 said:
Tongue in cheek, but only partially.
It mirrors the narrative that one day some pagans just started murdering Christians for no reason. That there was no prior history and that it just happened out of nowhere. (You know, like the Muslim narrative of the Crusades.)
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No.
You speak of totally different events.
 
Rumpelstil said:
Thinking of what really happened, I do not think your posting funny.
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Tell it to the pagan inhabitants of Old Saxony. Oh wait, you cant. Christians started genociding them all well before Lindisfarne.
 
when the Vikings so cowardly attacked helpless people along the coastlines of Europe, it was not for religious reasons.

And there is no need to romanticize those Vikings.
They were brutal robbers.
 
HK.227 said:
It mirrors the narrative that one day some pagans just started murdering Christians for no reason. That there was no prior history and that it just happened out of nowhere. (You know, like the Muslim narrative of the Crusades.)
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the Vikings did not kill for religious reasons.
they wanted to plunder.
that was their reason.
 
Allan said:
Like a lot of people I was taught in school that Christopher Columbus discovered North America in 1492.

Turns out he was late to the party. Vikings beat him by about 500 years.

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L'Anse aux Meadows - Wikipedia

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Yep Vinland.

Going west from Greenland according to the Vinland Saga, first there is Helluland, which is stony and rocky, then there is Markland, which is woody and flat, and to the south of Markland is Vinland the Good, full of fine lumber and wild grapes.
 
Rumpelstil said:
the Vikings did not kill for religious reasons.
they wanted to plunder.
that was their reason.
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And Germans started ww1 and 2 because they woke up one day and wanted to massacre someone for fun.
That was the sole reason, and anyone who says that there might have been some backstory or perhaps even politics going on is lying.
 
Rumpelstil said:
btw ... the Vandals were better than the Vikings

we should say vikinism instead of Vandalism. 😎
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Based on what?

The Vikings were no better or worse than any other people of their era.
 
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