Tall, strong and fierce warriors from harsh, mountainous lands second to none in battle and the terror of Europe.
Until you actually read about them
>172cm on average >killed a bunch of unarmed farmers and monks then got stomped almost every time they met resistance >aside from England they were more like a nuisance than actual threat >oathbreakers and cowards >only Norway is mountainous
also they raided DURING SUMMER
so stop fucking drawing them fighting in what looks like Siberia you dumb fucking retards
vikings were a meme people literally made up a combination of Conan with fantasy RPG bandit and think that's how the things were
>aside from England they were more like a nuisance than actual threat
Yet they occupied Paris, Raided Constantinople, French gave them Normandy, formed Russian states, conquered main Irish cities, occupied Brittany etc
Isaac Lee
Viking meme originates from 19th century romantic nationalism. In their age, vikings were literally seen as Africans are today, or as good mercenary material (see Varangian Guard).
Jackson Garcia
An awful lot of crosses on these "pagan" sheilds...
Nicholas Morris
>he doesn't know about the varangian guard
Samuel Butler
>occupied Paris
Frenchmen were outnumbered and still lasted a few months before Charles the Fat bribed them to rek his opponents
>raided Constantinople
Never happened, they raided some piss poor villages on the way to Constantinople
>French gave them Normandy
Yeah, having more vassals is a bad idea
>conquered main Irish cities
Then they got BTFO
Landon Brown
>conquered main Irish cities lmao
Ireland didn't have any cities. The Vikings built trading posts which eventually became cities. The Vikings themselves were kicked out of all of these places apart from Dublin and Waterford.
The Vikings have a pretty poor track record in Ireland generally. They didn't really win any major battles and had basically been throttled out of the country 200 years after getting there.
William Lopez
You do realize though that 172cm of average height was tall as fuck for most Europeans who averaged around 160cm in most countries up until Industrial and Modern times?
>Kicked out of all those places apart from Dublin and waterford >Posts kingdom of Dublin
Owen Bennett
>All those vikingboos cherry picking a few battles LMAO
Landon Richardson
>>complains about cherry picking and then posts an image that is the very definition of cherry picking.
lol
Julian Ramirez
To be fair, the cross as a symbol predates christianity by many years.
Thomas Cooper
>French gave them Normandy Solely because Frankish monarchs understood that Paris could only be raided through the Seine, and that by bestowing Normandy (which is the mouth of the Seine) to the vikings, all raids would end because vikings wouldn't raid their own lands nor would allow other vikings to pass through the Seine.
Genius move in the end.
Also >raiding Paris Heh they didn't even the guts to fight the peasants that lived there. Only besieged them and would wait for the locals to grow tired of their shit and pay them to journey elsewhere.
>Big collection of sources vs posting single ones Nah
Ryder Turner
>The Vikings themselves were kicked out of all of these places apart from Dublin and Waterford. >Dublin hurrrrrrrrrr
Jose Ross
>all the vikingboo tears ITT
Sebastian Hall
cm on average
Pretty normal height for medieval peasants
Jayden Ramirez
Exactly. So they were not fucking giants as vikingboos think.
Thomas Reed
>Vikings granted passage of the Seine and 700 livres (pounds) of silver
French cucks PAID the vikings to raid France and breed french virgins
Andrew Miller
lol no, that image is cherry picked copy pasta from a asspained xtian. The norseaboos by contrast could care less about the whining of the people who got their shit stomped by viking pirates.
Juan Murphy
Such an achievement on viking side.
Cameron Gonzalez
Name some of the people vikings stomped aside from monks.
>Complaining about xstians >the only Vikings who ever managed to conquer all of England were Christians themselves >Vikingboos will bullshit all day long about how über Christian Normans were Vikings
Daniel King
>>comparing norse in the early middle ages with modern blacks. lol
Hudson Gutierrez
Sweyn Forkbeard was a christian as well.
Julian Cruz
>Snowniggers can only win battles if they outnumber the enemy
Embarrassing.
Not to mention that the only record for this is on the Rus' side, so it might as well be fiction
Logan Long
>vikings were a meme people >vikings were a people
Viking was a profession, not a nation or ethnic group. It basically meant raider or pirate. There was a Danish and Norwegian people, or Norse/Scandinavian people in general, but no Viking people.
Noah Gutierrez
>Only besieged them and would wait for the locals to grow tired of their shit and pay them to journey elsewhere. Money and loot was the goal. Not conquest. The Vikings sacked cities instead of occupying them in general.
Sebastian Flores
>defending niggotry in any time period
Mason Foster
Destroying every single Anglo-Saxon kingdom save for Wessex.
Daniel Morales
My bad man, I meant to post this image.
Hudson Robinson
>this is what snowniggers ACTUALLY believe
Jonathan Clark
>map includes Norman conquests Wow
Adrian Barnes
Are you guys fucking retarded? A lot of the developing world nowadays is on average shorter than 172 cm. Hell, fucking industrial era European men were on average 165 or 168 cm.
Cooper Clark
The Vikings were farmers you fucking retarded idiot.
Christopher Howard
So maybe the farmers shouldn't be shilled as warriors you fucking retarded idiot besides swiss pikemen were originally a bunch of nobodies as well yet they were way more competent than memekings.
Owen Howard
Just helped England unify desu
Zachary Morales
>So maybe the farmers shouldn't be shilled as warriors
Blame 18th century romantics then you sperg.
Adam Rogers
Then got kicked silly by the last.
Camden Diaz
Just to clarify, the anti-Viking meme on Veeky Forums comes from a bunch of Polacks who are assblasted about /pol/ and think Viking = German, correct?
Anthony Hill
I am myself a Germanic and I just participate in it because I find the pro-viking meme really, really annoying and that I am a contrarian at heart.
Chase Taylor
I blame modern fuckers who took them seriously more.
Polacks like vikings because muh Wolin.
Alexander Hughes
>he doesn't know that literally every Christian symbol is pagan in origin
Daniel Fisher
> conquered main Irish cities They didn't, the conquered some parts of coast that then would go on to become major cities. The actual main Irish cities were largely inland and consistently under Gaelic rule until the Normans showed up.
Not long after they showed up however, the Vikings got absolutely put to shame by the Irish.
John Russell
Why do Vikings cause so much whining and butthurt?
Noah Nelson
Good thing Christians worship Jesus not symbols.
Brody Cooper
t. protestant
Levi Ward
Correct.
Carter Ortiz
Probably some western European who took a DNA test that revealed their ancestor was raped by Scandis.
Nolan Gonzalez
The vikings built Dublin
Ethan Sullivan
I wouldn't say the pro-vikings are any less butthurt than the antis.
Alexander Hill
Wow that's very warrior like I'm sure they killed those bricks.
Kevin Morales
And lost it like a bunch of wimps.
Jason Turner
Jesus Christ anti vikings are even worse than vikiboos
Anthony Harris
The asspain is strong in this thread.
Brandon Hill
Vikings had no redeeming qualities as warriors that's why. They were great sailors and that's what people should focus on not muh Valhalla and heavy metal bullshit.
Kevin Sullivan
Literally nothing in their posts was even remotely butthurt though.
>The vikings were great warriors, look at those houses they built >But that don't mean they were.... >HA HA HA, butthurt!
Joshua Edwards
Did you even read the post
Parker Sullivan
Did you
Nathan Turner
did
Jonathan Carter
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Logan Adams
This is not true. There should be a word for what you just did. A word like "absurdly-comparing-pre-modern-northern-europeans-to-subsaharan-Africans-to-mock-northern-europeansism" but shorter.
Mason Sanchez
This thread is about vikings being great warriors. Both of this posts answered someone that said they built Dublin. I don't really see what's wrong with any of them.
Isaiah Morris
...
Jordan Peterson
I dunno man I was trying to start a meme
Jason Bell
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Mason Flores
>"We wuz warriors n shiet" >every edgy teenager ever
Snowniggers, not even once.
Bentley Kelly
>t. viking rape baby just accept it and move on vikings raped Christian Jewrope it was the last instance of pagan pride, before Scandinavia was Jewed (Christianized) stop crying about it
Camden Wright
Threads like these are why Veeky Forums is a shit board.
Parker Sullivan
Why is it wrong? Vikings were seen as Africans at that time.
Mason Sullivan
But vikings converted to christianity retard.
Jason Young
If it was a clear showcase of pagan pride, why didn't the vikings mind raiding other pagans?
David White
>It's another "Veeky Forums throws down over vikings" episode
What the hell is it about vikings that makes them such a contentious topic here? Their battle prowess has obviously been exaggerated in folklore, but they still did other noteworthy things, like exploration, trade, and colonization. It's nothing you spergs need to freak out over, for fucks sake.
Lincoln Sanchez
>The chronicle implies that it was the most successful military operation of the Kievan Rus' against the Byzantine Empire. Paradoxically, Greek sources do not mention it at all.
literally fabricated
Parker Flores
>durrr
And then settled half of England. The Vikings also conquered all of England in the early 11th century (King Cnut).
Jace Butler
Because the Finnish and Baltic pagans were even poorer then they were.
Evan Thomas
vikings are trash, not like that's something new
no Veeky Forumstorian regards "vikings" highly
Julian Lee
The Viking Age was the last stage of the Germanic Migration Period. People here are still mad at the Goths for sacking Rome. French are mad about the Franks.
Ryan Jones
King Cnut was a Christian, Vikingboos will often to always claim this is some big Christianity-pagan dichotomy, not some Nordic-Other people one.
Logan Baker
whats the origin behind this meme?
Robert Martin
>people unironically defending vikings on Veeky Forums
Is this for real, or some sort of /pol/ raid?
Connor Fisher
>We must protect ourselves against Christianity >Let's go and raid our pagan brothers so they will be kept poor and defenseless against other Christians
Gabriel Collins
Carl the cuck.
Connor Bennett
Because exploration and trade are not what makes a good warrior so they shouldn't be fucking compared to other warriors if their only achievements are not even related to warfare.
Jack Diaz
>Vikings can't be Christian Interesting.
Bentley Brown
Literally every viking thread is some butthurt user rambling about how sore his rectum is
What gives?
What makes people so mad?
Christian Cooper
According to vikinboos they can't though. For them it's always some "Brave pagans fighting against Christianity" thing.
Nolan Hill
>Not long after they showed up however, the Vikings got absolutely put to shame by the Irish. The Irish were finally able to take Dublin in the 12th century, long after the end of the Viking Age.
Hudson Morgan
I don't care what Vikingboos do. The Vikings did conquer all of England until the Norman Conquest (descendants of the Vikings).