No philosophers

Yes, because they were. Who do you think made up the fyrd, user?

There's a major difference between armed, well armed, and "armed, alert, and in sufficient numbers to deter raiders"

Being armed is irrelevant if you're a small hamlet and your men of fighting age are terribly outnumbered. It's even less relevant when you're hit with no warning and don't have time to assemble or even have everyone get their weapons.

Unless you were dirt fucking poor-as in starving-you'd own a saex at the very least.

>if they stopped fighting each other like dumbasses they could've conquered the grand duchy of moscow or fucked with various european countries
Sweden sure did. It took a while, yes, but they really fucked shit up and devastated tons of people.

probably the most overrated warriors, if you can even call them that, in history

Muh runes

what're you talking about, romans and greeks are more iconic than the Vikings.

and then forgot it existed shortly after

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>>no philosophers
fair
>>architecture is a fucking straw hut
blatantly false
>>too retarded do write down their own history
runic inscriptions say otherwise
>>got rekt in pitched battles
did plenty of reking
>>only good at killing pedomonks and unarmed 40yo farmers
and establishing far-off kingdoms

>BARG :-DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

lel he fell for the mongolian meme
mongols were just shitty horse archers who got lucky almost zero contribution to the modern world other than destruction
vikings defeated english, french and crusader forces
golden horde couldnt even beat the hungarians let alone a real european power

>This thread again
Wow OP you really opened my eyes. The nordics are all retarded snowniggers without culture and this nullifies that they are wealthier and more successful then southern european nations

a mongolian army would eat and shit a nordic army period.

>a mongolian army would eat and shit a nordic army period.
5/10 I kekd but seriously though vikings wouldnt just ride out to fight the mongolian army head on they would obviously raid and destroy through attrition they werent soldiers, for the most part they were longship based raiders
lel do mongolians even know how to boat? retarded plains-niggers would prolly ride their horses all the way into scandinavia taking plenty of casualties along the way due to the enviroment and the logistics of trying to feed such an oversized army just to realize that olaf already circumnavigated the globe and is in chingchong land fucking his geishas n sheeit
TLDR vikings would whoop ass on chinamen

So much fucking this

Don't forget vikings literally discovered and colonised America and the Caribbean and that God is a Viking women and YAKUB invented the Mediterranean man in his mad science get woke mein bruders

Woops I meant JAKUB

Since the Nords would probably be on the defensive and Scandinavia's terrain would be an absolute hell for the mongols the Nordics would probably win.

People love Scandinavians because they look like the model Germanic white race. What people don't realize is that Scandinavians are mostly haplogroup I and have not moved around much for 50,000 years, they have their own distinct features which are in contrast to the truly Germanic R1b people who moved into Scandinavia and bred with the locals. The Northern European Germanic R1b is what people have in their minds when they think of white people (tall, blue eyes, blonde/red hair, etc) but because that branch of r1b has remained mostly untouched in Scandinavia, that we now view Scandinavians as being the true white people when it's only a small percentage of them.

>no philosophers
Skalds
>architecture is a fucking straw hut
99% of the people in europe lived strawhuts during the dark ages
>too retarded do write down their own history
Runes
>got rekt in pitched battles
no
>only good at killing pedomonks and unarmed 40yo farmers
no

>Those skinny white metalheads who are obsessed with Norse shit and try to claim to be descended from vikings
>Claim Vikings were superior warriors
>Norse culture and faith is superior to all others
>Reckons viking axes and shields were of utmost quality and renown in battle
>"Your god was nailed to a cross, mine has a hammer"

>Probably couldn't name any of the Scandinavian Kingdoms or Chiefs
>Probably don't know of any famous vikings other than "Ragnar" from that TV show no less
>Probably don't know any other pagan gods other than Thor or Odin, maybe Loki
>Probably think "pagan" refers only to Norse beliefs
>Will be shut down the second you name almost any battle against an organised, supplied force where the vikings got absolutely and utterly blown the fuck out

Are norseboos the polar opposite of weebs?

How come this board always memes about nordic we wuzism when it's the mediterraneans who do it all the time with their
>we wuz civilized n shit
>we wuz romans
>we wuz cultural superior

>no philosophers
>architecture is a fucking straw hut
>too retarded do write down their own history
>to busy fighting eachother
>only good at killing welsh farmers and 15 year old danish twinks

Probs because white people are an extreme minority in the world and this website is populated with Mexicans and wogs who claim Roman culture and ancestry as their own.

how come no one ever brings this up I feel like almost all southern european cultures have this
>spain we wuz conquistadors n sheeit
>italians we wuz romans n sheeit
>greece we wuz spartans n sheeit
At least italy and spain have more recent examples of glory and somewhat functional countries
you would be hardpressed to find anything of value from the greeks in the last 1500 years

>Inb4 but MUH...MUH TURK OPPRESSION
get your shit together already

I hate Irishboos more than fucking any of them.
>muh "we saved western civilisation"
>muh "cultural cradle"
>muh writers
>muh thinkers
>muh warriors
>muh viking killers
>muh rebellions

Awful lot of pride for a nation that has done absolutely fucking nothing of note since the dawn of time. They act so high and mighty but what the fuck have they got that their literal next door neighbour england hasn't got 10 times better?

Ireland needs nuked.

>but what the fuck have they got that their literal next door neighbour england hasn't got

Connacht, Munster, Leinster

I leled pretty hard
>muh "we saved western civilisation"
>muh "cultural cradle"
literally how? I honestly dont understand this one.
someone please explain
>muh thinkers
name one irish invention *hard mode* cant be related to alcohol
>muh warriors
>muh viking killers
>muh rebellions
apparently they werent that great literally been unable to unify since the dawn of time still cant unify their nation
>muh writers
guess 'l'll let the irish can have this one
Joyce is one hell of a writer

>we saved western civilisation
Usually stemming from a book where a guy talks about how Ireland is responsible for the west not falling to shit due to keeping records. The reality is a lot simpler-Ireland did keep a lot of information and writing safe and did safeguard it while it was lost elsewhere, but only really did it "better" than anyone else because other than Vikings there was fuck all outside forces to mess with them.

>muh thinkers
Irish philosophers were actually involved in just about every single ancient debate and many others.
>inventions
kek, nah. Unless you count innovations in guerrilla warfare, they didn't come up with much.

>warriors/viking killers/rebellions
>writers

The two things I do give them credit for. Irish mercenaries were sought all over the world, and they did push the vikings shit in extremely hard, although it was at their most unified time-when Ireland was only technically divided in two between a higher and lesser king.

Rebellions were constant and quite brutal, Based Hugh O'Neill gave the English a pretty hard time, as did Michael Collins.
The 1916 rebellion was a military disaster overall but they did manage to hold out long enough to gain their legitimacy and that likely helped in the long run.

Irish writers have also always been great.

But aye, Ireland isn't, never was and never really will be relevant on a global scale. More like a light dashing of pretty cool stuff here and there, mostly relating to fending off or irritating actually relevant and competent nations.

kek

>philosophers
>Skalds

wew

Have you read The Elder Edda? Lots of philosophical instruction in there.

>People love Scandinavians because they look like the model Germanic white race

Nobody looks like the model Germanic white race because it doesn't exist outside of nazi propaganda. Swedes don't look like the guy in your pic for example. They just look like generic, boring northern europeans. Only the women are blonde and they just look like ordinary blond anglo girls. There's no race of dolph lundgrens and dakota/elle fannings.
> The Northern European Germanic R1b is what people have in their minds when they think of white people

no, they just think of ordinary white people.

>The Northern European Germanic R1b is what people have in their minds when they think of white people (tall, blue eyes, blonde/red hair, etc)

>red hair
>germanic

>Ireland needs nuked.
Protestant detected. You huns are Jeremy Kyle tier as a people but thankfully as irrelevant as Ireland may be, """Ulster-Scots"""" will always be 1000 times more irrelevant so most people will live there lives blissfully ignorant of your rotten and degenerate "kulchur"

is ireland even real? People from the ROI don't consider northern ireland to have anything to do with ireland, yet ireland is an island and the ROI has only existed since 1916. Before that the whole island was ireland, not long before that it was all british anyway. So did ireland/irish people not exist until 1916? Before it was british it was a bunch of feuding clans, not one people or nation.

I've seen people say that if your ancestors immigrated to your country from ireland in the 1800's, then they were british not irish, because the ROI didn't exist yet.

Written by a Christian after the viking period :^}

>Ireland
The Island
>ROI
The Republic largely representing the Irish culture of freedom from English Oppression
>NI
cucked

I believe that Irish took on a new identity with each age.
>Clans
>Province
>High King/petty king
>"North" and "south" under Brian Boru and Mael Sechnaill Mac Domnaill
>English
>British
>Republican
>Unionist

I also believe that when Ulster joins ROI (yes when, not "if" as literally anyone who lives in NI will confirm if they aren't in denial) Ireland will need a new form once again.

To have the last scraps of Ulster join the ROI, Ireland will again need to change it's identity as it is now "unified" and truly independent of the UK.

Not "reunified" because since the creation of the ROI it has never been unified, but a new identity will need to be made as it has been in the past.

Why the fuck would we want to nuke a country directly connected to ours you massive retard. Especially when Nukes in the 80s let alone today would have been devestating to Northern Ireland had they been dropped on London let alone Dublin.

>Nobody looks like the model Germanic white race because it doesn't exist outside of nazi propaganda.
Tall white people with blue eyes, thick beards and fair hair don't exist supposedly.
>There's no race of dolph lundgrens
Dolph Lundgren does not look Germanic he looks extremely native scandinavian. Arnold Schwarzenegger looks far more Germanic than him.
>red hair
>germanic
Pic related. Compare this map with a map of r1b-S21 and have your mind blown.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetic_Edda
You're thinking of the Prose Edda written by Snorri.

OI M8 YOU TELL 'IM

GOD SAVE DA QUEEN

ALLAHU AKBAR

>Why the fuck would we want to nuke a country directly connected to ours you massive retard.
Ask the spastic I was replying to.

>yes when, not "if" as literally anyone who lives in NI will confirm if they aren't in denial

I'm sorry I don't want to derail the thread but thats simply not true. A united Ireland is as economically unviable as Northern Ireland as a separate independent country. All it would achieve is a return to civil unrest.

The only people that would benefit is old murderers in dive bars.

>muh Irish passports.
EU scaremongering at work and has nothing to do with the border.

Not saying it's for the better or for the worse, but it's a fact all the same user.

Unionism in NI is simply failing. When the generations who continue to vote out of fear die out, people will be left polarized by Unionist parties because all of the relevant ones are still associated with right wing conservatism, something which new younger voters are resenting more and more-hence the spike in popularity of republican parties when, for example, they came out in support of gay marriage.

If the Unionist parties at the top start doing the necessary 180s to continue to draw in progressive voters, they will isolate many of the voters they have and split their power enough that the republican voters will gain the larger foothold they need.

Unionist identity is failing with their "culture" getting criticized more and more every year, as more and more people are open to the idea of being Irish.

Brexit and the Scotcuck independence rumours are only adding to this, as NI had a large remain majority and they feel now more than ever misrepresented by the UK and by and large by the DUP.

>Irish passports
Only retards haven't got one yet if you're in NI, there is literally no downside to having 2 passports and anyone who doesn't-no matter how hardline republican or unionist you are-is fucking daft.

The point is that there is no conceivable way in which Unionism can survive another few generations. Not a chance.

>return to civil unrest

From who?
The Unionists?
UK have agreed to support and facilitate an exit from the UK should NI desire it, so who the fuck are the UVF/UDA for example going to fight and what for?
They'd be regarded as terrorists in the back garden of England, and would thusly never gain the grounds the IRA did.

If it was economically viable I'd like a United Ireland, but it isn't, so there shouldn't be, but in reality there eventually will be.

>if they stopped fighting each other like dumbasses they could've conquered the grand duchy of moscow or fucked with various european countries

russia is rus, rus is scandi merchants that settled along the routes towards the east and south

>One angry Viking vs one angry Arab vs one angry Mongolian, vs one angry Hun.

Who would win?

That's why there is no archeological evidence for norse activity in Russia right?

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>"heh"
top kek
Alos that image is far vain, you can find Japanese katakana letter that look more similar to runes.

Show me the palro Hebrew and not the modern day kike thieves language who have duped the real tribes out of their inheritance.

One smart anglo or jew

I presume you're unfamiliar with Phoenician?

>Varg's only claim to fame is killing another retard back in the 90s and burning churches
Why do people care about him

What is the difference?

>name one irish invention
The modern submarine.

North Star and South Star

>日
>O
>エ
The Japanese has some of those, which means it might just be pure chance.

Or rather, some traded goods had some marks on them, and a merchant uttered their meaning for the buyer. Which makes sense. The merchants used to write runes, not commoners.

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>another viking thread
fuck off
if you're talking about nations too (so not vikings at all), scandinavians did have all the things you mentioned, plus some military capabilility

Gee, I wonder who could be behind this post..

The historical examples of Futhark (((writing))) read along the lines of:

>DIS SDONE WAS PUT HERE BY GURDUR SON OF HURDUR :-DDD BIG GUYS

It wasn't used by merchants.

I'm from that vin land
Newfoundland sucks ass
Also they didn't intend on coming here te first time around
Also they got btfo by ancient leafs

Newfoundlander / vinlander here
Do you know what it means to colonize something? They stayed here for an hour and a half and then beat it in high gear, there are no records or believable testimonies to support the idea that they had any mixing with the natives, so it's accepted that there are 0% snownigger genes here

Vikings have an interesting mithology and we have to admit they were found of bravery, strong morals and a great comunity sense as opposed to the southern people that were more "morally flexible" and way more self-centered\selfish.

However, they aren't worth all the worship they get from the media and norseboos

>strong morals

That was a typical tribal mindset of that time.
Vikings were quite honest among themselves and they were really practical at dealing with everyday stuff and so on.

What confuses me is that nobody even talks about vikings here besides butthurt anglos who keep making these threads because they cant deal with the fact that they are viking rape babies.

> implying no philosophers is a bad thing

Being a rape baby is always a delicate issue. Even if it's from vikings. Well, at least they aren't berbers, nothing against them but they are way less aesthetic than vikings and significantly weaker

The Vikings were atypically brutal for their time lad and Christians weren't raiding Scandinavia.

Everyone was brutal at that time, maybe they were a little bit more but that's how history goes

>he wrote in English

Lot of good it did them.

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In wich language would you prefer me to write?
I don't understand your point

thank God we beat those godless pagans
now Europe can have a bright future with Christian tolerance

Keep speaking the King's lad.

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>be European
>worship a Jew from Palestine
wew lads

What were some good Norse literature?

the Sagas are the most remarkable
my favourite is when Sigurd Jorsalsfare goes to help the Crusades in Jerusalem
on the way they fuck up some Muslims and Berbers

livebunker.rocks/chat/int

Nords are ice fuckers.

>europe
>in the early middle ages
wew lads

>Greeks, Carthagians and Romans

Who the fuck do you think those were descended from?

This fucking retard germanophobe doesn't even know about indo-germanics, LOL.

It's almost like these scripts came from the same Phoenician script

>its another viking hate thread.
We understand you dont like them OP, but you are behaving like a nigger

These
Never understood how blonde hair became associated Germanics and red hair with Celtics.

Tacitus associated the Germanics with red hair, Thor was described as "Red-Haired Thunder" (which is why marvel comic's sorta triggers me), and like the other user said, overlapping Germanic y-dna with red hair distribution is basically exactly the same.

I appreciate the Vikings just for there sailing abilities at that's pretty much all.

It's Indo-European, and Germanics are a offshoot of them just like everyone else, they're not the original, just a face of it.

Maybe it was the same for Scandinavians but it was a known Celtic practice that things were not written because they believed it weakened the mind, thus they memorized things. Sadly this means we know next to nothing about them.

WE WUZ GRECO-ROMANS SHEIT

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