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1. These attacks on white history always start with an attempt at self-validation by reflecting on some recent horrible thing a white man did (in this case Charlottesville) before launching into witless diatribes about how white males see themselves thedailybeast.com/what-the-alt-r…
2. as superior and won’t stop until they enslave everyone. Such an introduction is necessary just in case your were of the opinion that noble attempts to mangle legitimate Viking history into something more reconcilable with contemporary woke narratives are somehow underserved.
3. This misandric revulsion is always punctuated by the predictable (albeit insincere) effort to lament history they loathe with musings like... “It was such a beautiful culture and so sad that it’s been misappropriated by racist white men that know nothing of its true history”.
4. Kern makes good use of the 30 minutes she spent cherrypicking her way through Viking lore via Google searches by discovering a few malleable tidbits ripe for femsplaining away centuries of consistent observations regarding the cultural nuances of Viking society.
5. Female Viking grave evidence at Birka near Stockholm has solidified the mythological connotation professed by medieval scholars like Saxo Grammaticus into the now accepted reality that shield-maidens fought along side male warriors during raids. Female warriors were not buried
6. with “male-coded grave goods” but rather standard military apparel. Viking is not a verb. It’s not synonymous with raiding or plundering. It’s not something you do, it’s something you are – a proper noun inferring an ethnotribal label translated
7. from Old Norse as 𝘷𝘪𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘳 “One who comes from the fjords”, or from the “Vik”– the huge bay between Norway, Sweden, and Denmark contemporarily known as “Skagerrak”. Snorri Sturluson’s view that the pantheon of Norse gods known as the Æsir being transplanted
8. from Asia was conjecture limited only to him and is not part of legitimate Norse mythology. Norse pagans believe the houses of the Æsir and their godly inhabitants dwell in the sky. 19th-century views of Nordic superiority were not based on aesthetic interpretations
9. of blonde hair/blue eye phenotypes but rather the inferences of Madison Grant that Nordic Aryans were a model of negative eugenics attributed to adaptive traits which allowed them to survive in the harsh cold conditions of northern latitudes.
10. At least one of Kern’s assertions about the Vikings’ appearance is refuted by her own link citation which clearly states the Vikings did have blonde hair. Up until recently genetic studies on Viking remains were mostly restricted to HVR regions in mitochondrial DNA;
11. however, hair color is an autosomal trait. A new study (Margaryan et al. 2019) authored by over 40 scientists is currently in peer review and examines autosomal evidence indicating that Vikings were similar in phenotype to modern
12. Scandinavians and genetically homogenous in relative scale with most external gene flow restricted to the British Isles along with the North and Baltic Sea coastal areas despite their diaspora, raiding conquests, and trade network expansion.
13. In April an English professor at Brandeis, Dorothy Kim, penned an indignant article for TIME (which begins by lamenting Christchurch) as an act of revenge against white history books that have completely ignored multi-racial aspects of the Vikings.
14. At the end of Kim’s article, she let slip that her agenda-driven revision of Viking history was at least partially inspired by the ideas of half Maori/half Jewish director Taika Waititi and the multicultural representation of Asgard in Marvel films.
15. It’s long past time that media-pampered anglophobic feminists got out of the business of trying to revise European history with woke propaganda narratives and temper their puerile desire to vanquish all things white and male. Without such a reappraisal I fear
16. this toxic ideology will continue to slither its way into the public school system where we might expect to see the courses dedicated to teaching future students that all Vikings were gender-fluid black women will not be electives.
