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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">https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020... 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">https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020... 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& #39;t have a Soundcloud (is that still a thing we do?) so instead I& #39;m going to direct y& #39;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">https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/1...
Also watch this space because I& #39;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.
