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https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/09/viking-was-job-description-not-matter-heredity-massive-ancient-dna-study-shows?rss=1
Modern historians know this, but to repeat for the rest of you:
1) "Viking" was a job, not a people
2) The Norse had no concept of "racial purity" or "race" like we do
3) The Norse would have looked racially diverse to us
Nazi medievalists get fucked.
Modern historians know this, but to repeat for the rest of you:
1) "Viking" was a job, not a people
2) The Norse had no concept of "racial purity" or "race" like we do
3) The Norse would have looked racially diverse to us
Nazi medievalists get fucked.
I don't have a Soundcloud (is that still a thing we do?) so instead I'm going to direct y'all to the work of Dr. @Nahir_Otano and her excellent deconstructions of white-centric views of the medieval North Atlantic. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/lic3.12545
Also watch this space because I'm working on a tabletop game about the Icelandic commonwealth as a vehicle for fun and also deconstructing popular depictions of the Norse. Wanna sue your friends? Watch this space.
