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laufeyknits:
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hogna-lenta:
prokopetz:
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sunshinetrooper:
black and asian vikings 100% definitely existed (also, saami vikings)
you know how far you can get into eurasia and africa by sailing up rivers from the baltic and mediterranean seas? pretty fucking far, and that’s what vikings liked to do to trade
then, you know, people are people, so love happens, business happens, and so ppl get married and take spouses back home to the frozen hellscape that is scandinavia (upon which i’m guessing the horrorstruck new spouses went “WHAT THE FUCK??? FUCKING GIVE ME YOUR JACKET???????”)
and sometimes vikings bought thralls and brought them home as well, and i mean, when your indentured service is up after however many years and you’re a free person again, maaaaaaaaaaaaybe it’s a bit hard to get all the way home across the continent, so you make the best out of the situation and you probably get married and raise a gaggle kids
so yeah
viking kingdoms/communities were not uniformly pure white aryan fantasy paradises, so pls stop using my cultural history and ethnic background to excuse your racist discomfort with black ppl playing heimdall and valkyrie
Also we KNOW they got to Asia and Africa.
Why?
Because Asians, Africans, and Vikings TOLD US SO.
Also, we know there was significant mercantile trade between Scandinavia and parts of Pakistan, Afghanistan, Northern India, Kashmir, North and Eastern Africa because there is evidence in burial sites.
Check that out: the goods Vikings and Scandinavians were getting from their trade with the rest of the world was so important they buried themselves with it, as part of their treasure hordes.
We KNOW this.
There’s a reason you can still see many of the trade routes from the ancient world etched into the very earth.
Plus, we know that some Scandinavian cultures that participated in Viking raids had established minority communities of ethnically Mongolian folks living among them during the periods when such raids were common, and it’s difficult to credit that none of them would have signed on.
Islamic Ring in Viking Grave
Vikings in Persia
Black Vikings
Vikings in North Africa
Buddha statue in Viking hoard
Vikings brought Native American woman to Europe
Unflattering texts in Arabic about Vikings
Original text by Ahmad ibn-Fadlan
More about the Islamic World and Vikings (some Vikings converted to Islam! sort of sketchy site tho)
Viking technology came from Afghanistan
More on trade route determination via metallurgy
… is that enough? :)
Yet another on the pile of reasons why it monumentally honks me off when pusillanimous, pseudointellectual white supremacist scum try to use Scandinavian culture as a crutch for their arguments and act like Norse mythology agrees with their biases. No it fucking doesn’t, bitch. Odin would personally kick you in the dick for being a witless coward and then send your ass to the Realm of the Dishonored Dead.
that last comment, lol
For reals though, Hávamál (= the words of the High One/Óðinn) starts with a list of things you should give to a weary traveler, and nowhere does it say “but only the white ones”. No, it then goes on to further give YOU advice what to do when you’re that traveler, because it’s assumed that of course you will travel long distances. Of course, people do. The one who always stays at home is a stupid man, literally, that’s where the Icelandic word for stupid comes from. Also Hávamál is the main book of Ásatrú.
Don’t get me started on how the Icelandic Ásatrú community has had to fend off foreign racists trying to use them for various purposes (the local ones were already kicked out decades ago; they went on to form their own Ásatrú community that seems to have died out quickly due to lack of members). They state they’re apolitical, but do take sides in many political matters such as the LGBTA, which they’re ok with and have been providing equal marriage for for longer than the Icelandic government… and have received threats from foreign groups for their stance.
These threats include, for example, a plan by American and German groups, to travel to Iceland and vandalize the new temple that’s currently being built. As a result, the Ásatrú community may be forced to close the temple from foreign visitors and only let them in on guided tours, something that they didn’t think was ever going to be necessary.
Lastly:
“We know these texts; we have lived with these texts for a thousand years. We are not coating them in some Viking or warrior romanticism.”
~ Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson (the high priest)
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laufeyknits:
japan-magpie:
pizza-eagle:
hogna-lenta:
prokopetz:
note-a-bear:
shrewreadings:
sunshinetrooper:
black and asian vikings 100% definitely existed (also, saami vikings)
you know how far you can get into eurasia and africa by sailing up rivers from the baltic and mediterranean seas? pretty fucking far, and that’s what vikings liked to do to trade
then, you know, people are people, so love happens, business happens, and so ppl get married and take spouses back home to the frozen hellscape that is scandinavia (upon which i’m guessing the horrorstruck new spouses went “WHAT THE FUCK??? FUCKING GIVE ME YOUR JACKET???????”)
and sometimes vikings bought thralls and brought them home as well, and i mean, when your indentured service is up after however many years and you’re a free person again, maaaaaaaaaaaaybe it’s a bit hard to get all the way home across the continent, so you make the best out of the situation and you probably get married and raise a gaggle kids
so yeah
viking kingdoms/communities were not uniformly pure white aryan fantasy paradises, so pls stop using my cultural history and ethnic background to excuse your racist discomfort with black ppl playing heimdall and valkyrie
Also we KNOW they got to Asia and Africa.
Why?
Because Asians, Africans, and Vikings TOLD US SO.
Also, we know there was significant mercantile trade between Scandinavia and parts of Pakistan, Afghanistan, Northern India, Kashmir, North and Eastern Africa because there is evidence in burial sites.
Check that out: the goods Vikings and Scandinavians were getting from their trade with the rest of the world was so important they buried themselves with it, as part of their treasure hordes.
We KNOW this.
There’s a reason you can still see many of the trade routes from the ancient world etched into the very earth.
Plus, we know that some Scandinavian cultures that participated in Viking raids had established minority communities of ethnically Mongolian folks living among them during the periods when such raids were common, and it’s difficult to credit that none of them would have signed on.
Islamic Ring in Viking Grave
Vikings in Persia
Black Vikings
Vikings in North Africa
Buddha statue in Viking hoard
Vikings brought Native American woman to Europe
Unflattering texts in Arabic about Vikings
Original text by Ahmad ibn-Fadlan
More about the Islamic World and Vikings (some Vikings converted to Islam! sort of sketchy site tho)
Viking technology came from Afghanistan
More on trade route determination via metallurgy
… is that enough? :)
Yet another on the pile of reasons why it monumentally honks me off when pusillanimous, pseudointellectual white supremacist scum try to use Scandinavian culture as a crutch for their arguments and act like Norse mythology agrees with their biases. No it fucking doesn’t, bitch. Odin would personally kick you in the dick for being a witless coward and then send your ass to the Realm of the Dishonored Dead.
that last comment, lol
For reals though, Hávamál (= the words of the High One/Óðinn) starts with a list of things you should give to a weary traveler, and nowhere does it say “but only the white ones”. No, it then goes on to further give YOU advice what to do when you’re that traveler, because it’s assumed that of course you will travel long distances. Of course, people do. The one who always stays at home is a stupid man, literally, that’s where the Icelandic word for stupid comes from. Also Hávamál is the main book of Ásatrú.
Don’t get me started on how the Icelandic Ásatrú community has had to fend off foreign racists trying to use them for various purposes (the local ones were already kicked out decades ago; they went on to form their own Ásatrú community that seems to have died out quickly due to lack of members). They state they’re apolitical, but do take sides in many political matters such as the LGBTA, which they’re ok with and have been providing equal marriage for for longer than the Icelandic government… and have received threats from foreign groups for their stance.
These threats include, for example, a plan by American and German groups, to travel to Iceland and vandalize the new temple that’s currently being built. As a result, the Ásatrú community may be forced to close the temple from foreign visitors and only let them in on guided tours, something that they didn’t think was ever going to be necessary.
Lastly:
“We know these texts; we have lived with these texts for a thousand years. We are not coating them in some Viking or warrior romanticism.”
~ Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson (the high priest)
(Your picture was not posted)
