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22 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
the older I get, the longer I live, the more I come to believe that the Vikings were just total assholes.
these are the sorts of musings that come to one's head when reading a dry academic tome about the history of the Vikings on a Saturday morning & even the studiously non-inflammatory tone can't disguise that it's 99% raping, looting, killing, burning, & destroying priceless relics
seriously, these guys were jerks and it's high time someone had the courage to stand up and call them out on it.
The monks and nuns of Lindisfarne, Iona, and Jarrow might beg to differ with this revisionism.

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