Just do a bit of research. Norse mythology is pretty extensive, and it's been widely studied. Of the top of my head, here's a few titles: "Fields of Surtr," "Howl of Fenrir," "Death of Baldur," and "The Shattered Runestone."
Norse mythology is amazing and there are some hilarious moments in it. I wish Vikings weren't always portrayed as violent and grim, when they were very civilized and celebrated nature and the Gods. I would love it if the Uttgarda-Loki story or Thor dressing up as Freya and getting married was shown or mentioned in mainstream content about Vikings, instead of the whole grey, grim, "barbarian" stuff.
And they were outstanding craftsmen!
Their woodwork was made to last centuries, but still covered in sophisticated carvings.
Their blacksmiths were by far the best of their time. They were trading their goods over thousands of miles, what an amazing culture that must have been.
There are even traces of their gender equality having been more advanced than what we are having today.
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Tell me about it! I heard some guy say Norse mythology was “just trolls” and I was pissed! I’ve been to a lot of old Viking villages (been to Birka multiple times, every summer for a few years) and the craftsmanship from these little old trinkets the archeologists found is amazingly intricate and often filled with symbolism of stories about these grand adventures the old gods and mortals went on! They had board games, littérature from all over the world, their tapestry was beautiful. Hell, even after the Christians came and started trying to erase their culture there’s a lot of interesting mythology like skogsrå and näcken (to name the most famous ones)
(Btw while women had a lot more freedom and rights than other societies at the time they were not as advanced as we are today, sure women had a lot of financial influence over the home but she was still expected to be there. There were female Vikings but very few. Or Christians erased that history too, what do I know.)
Fun to talk to such a dedicated and devoted fan of the good ole Vicki's, lol
Indeed your knowledge and experience seems to be way more advanced than mine, but I certainly give you right in the point of Christian influence on what we know today.
Fact is, that the "Vicking culture" is one of the most underrated (by constantly reducing them to hack and slay in media) of all cultures that went down the drain.
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Oh why thank you! I know a lot less about the subject that what I would want to tho haha. But yes! Exactly! I hate it when we see a “Viking village” in media and it’s just a bunch of dust, grim and gravel, 2 meter tall blonde men with giant beards that carry around swords and mean expressions. (Just to mention I have nothing against people who practice Christianity today, I’m just bitter about most of our knowledge of the aesir faith is just based on the Prose Edda and the Poetic Edda, and that the Christians at the time tried to influence those collections of stories as well. I mean the premonition at the end of “the death of Baldr” is suspicious.)
Their woodwork was made to last centuries, but still covered in sophisticated carvings.
Their blacksmiths were by far the best of their time. They were trading their goods over thousands of miles, what an amazing culture that must have been.
There are even traces of their gender equality having been more advanced than what we are having today.
(Btw while women had a lot more freedom and rights than other societies at the time they were not as advanced as we are today, sure women had a lot of financial influence over the home but she was still expected to be there. There were female Vikings but very few. Or Christians erased that history too, what do I know.)
Indeed your knowledge and experience seems to be way more advanced than mine, but I certainly give you right in the point of Christian influence on what we know today.
Fact is, that the "Vicking culture" is one of the most underrated (by constantly reducing them to hack and slay in media) of all cultures that went down the drain.