Lost Worlds: The Vikings 1

The History Channel shows us the Lost World of the Vikings and the advances and technology of the Nordic culture.

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[Andrekky]

Worlds like "barbaric" and "savagery" is overused in a very annoying way to describe the vikings here, as if the christians were some kind of innocents.

Sure. Because viking raids towards the English coastlike is an outrageous barbaric crime compared to say.. The Crusades.. Or the Spanish Inquisition.

As if.

[BayAreaOrBust]

Vikings and bloodshed? How about the blood shed that the Crusades and the Ottomans created?

[TheLueii]

@swissdeath13 And golly gee. The varangian guards being the Emperor's body-guard demonstrates how civilized they were. NO. Just the opposite. Case and point Harald Halrada. They weren't hired because they were good men. They were hired because they were strong muscle and the Byzantines knew that. And Vikingr ARE raiders. Norsemen =/= Vikings as Vikings are pirates, Norsemen are an ethnic group.

[TheLueii]

@swissdeath13 The Crusade weren't christianitys fault...there is no basis in it for such violence. It goes back to the greed of men. The men who started the crusades were politicians, greedy popes, and landless nobles wanting an excuse to take eastern lands and raise armies. That would have happened with OR without christianity. What would not have happened is men like this: "I do not believe that the same God that gave us reason and intellect would wish us to forgo their use." (Galileo)

[TheLueii]

@swissdeath13 And ever heard of the scientific revolution?

[TheLueii]

@swissdeath13 At least they didn't drive axes into skulls and blood eagle people...and vikings NEVER earned their pay. Honest NORSEMEN did. The Vikings were greedy raiders. And I might point out that when the vikings raided Lindisfarne these practices were not praticed (in I'd say never were practiced by) the majority of monks.

[swissdeath13]

@TheLueii Of course christianity is the future ever heard of the age of scientific repression? And these so called monks and theyre christian masters were in fact far more greedy (Indulgence letters, church taxes, faking holy artifacts to get more donations.) dont make christianity so much better at least the vikings fought and worked for their money.

[theperv01]

@bayarearorbust because they murdered In the name of god silly they were " saving the holy land from heathens and sinners" it was gods will didn't u know?. They were pardoned of any sins like killing any Israelites adultery fornication with foreign women murder theft so long as it was in the name of the church.

[MsColdCanada]

@BayAreaOrBust I'm sure you can find a ton of videos about that topic but this is about viking raids. Two entirely different chapters in grizzly human history.

[1GTX1]

They were nice people :)

[ghostmacks]

I think that it is a little wrong to talk about Lindisfarne and then go to Sweden and look at the artifacts there :S the vikings that raided Lindisfarne were from Norway and Denmark..