How successful were the vikings in actual reality? How did they fare against professional armies?

How successful were the vikings in actual reality? How did they fare against professional armies?

They lost almost all the wars they fought

They were good at raping & pillaging tho. Such noble warriors

>christcucks still pissed they got BTFO

So the picture I'm getting is that an individual viking warrior would be a formidable warrior, but an army of viking soldiers would be poorer?

'no'

They were basically the same as every other "people" or armies in Early Middle Ages Europe.

professional armies were barely a thing

The most famous Viking Harold hadarda was Christian

They were pretty crap, the normans did a lot of shit though but they were more frog than snownigger

Very succesful in the british isle, less so in germany and france.
They sieged paris twice, success the first time it seems and second time was a "decisive frankish victory" but they still payed the vikings to leave.

While they had mobiliy by sea, they lacked the mobility during a route like arab and mongol horse invaders had, so their victories were not as decisive and their defeats could be more decisive.
Franks won a lot, but still gave land to vikings so they became his vassal.

>While they had mobiliy by sea, they lacked the mobility during a route like arab and mongol horse invaders had

Reminds me of how the ERE would bribe Pechenegs to ambush the Varangians as they were carrying their boats on land.

Based King Alfred.

Was kings of England several times. Seems England got better after they got a bit of viking blood(and French for that matter) raped into them. Had some pretty advanced ships in their age. Not very good at warfare though.

Its hard to belive in cool stories about narco-warriors. Just national scandinavian legends.

They got BTFO in the Caspian

They were good at what they were supposed to do, striking at the political centers (monastries) of an imperialistic and genocidal ideology.

normans

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what is your definition of a viking? the norse conquerors from danish and norwegian kingdoms who established rule over the british isles? or the petty bandits who looted villages in small, unaffiliated bands? the latter avoided fighting an army because that would be stupid.

what would make an individual viking formidable? danish and norwegian kings assembled armies numbering in the tens of thousands and were very organized in their conquests.

I think a lot of confision is coming from people not realizing that 'vikings' existed before heavy european knights that came 300 years later. Somehow, people think they existed at the same time. The people "viking" armies conquered and fought were equipped similarly and fielded similarly sized armies, with similar levels of organization. some exceptions you could make would be of the celtic people of the british isles who were not as well equipped.

Viking is a general term that encompassed what were basically pirates as well as the professional armies of their kings. Viking raiders mostly just attacked defenseless villages and towns, raping and pillaging wherever they knew there was no garrison. They especially loved attacking churches and monasteries for the double whammy of few (if any) soldiers + valuable loot compared to your typical hamlet which was more of a provisions run. Generally they would run away or get cut down if they ever fought real soldiers.

The professional armies of the Viking kings though were a lot more formidable, but they notably never managed to spread their conquests very far inland. Vikings were always strongest by the water, the coastlines they could terrorize with impunity, and raiders could even strike very deep using rivers, but they couldn't hold anything worth a damn very far from salt water.

Normans weren't real vikings
By the 11th century, they had lost all traces of Nordic culture and religion, and had more French blood than Danish one in the veins

That map is from the 12 century onward, by then the Normans had long since been Christianized and subsumed into French culture.

They founded Russia. Sort of.