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usernames98751 · 06/06/2026 07:54

I’m a Swede and even I am proud of them! Nothing problematic about it, they look great!

Sskka · 06/06/2026 06:47

Imagine trying to explain this fuss to Erling Haaland when he’s in rampage mode.

OtterLovesItsRock · 06/06/2026 04:55

Liberate men from the Victorian oppression of trousers

OtterLovesItsRock · 06/06/2026 04:53

Men, why don't you dress more like this?

Outlander GIF
Fimofriend · 06/06/2026 04:49

Thank you for this thread. It has reminded me that I need to check the homepage for The Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde. It is going to be completely reconstructed and I am curious to see the new plans.

Last time they expanded the building into the fiord and discovered five more ship wrecks. So they had to expand it a bit more than originally planned.

In general building in Roskilde takes a while because they always find something new in the ground. I am looking forward to seeing what they find.

CypressGrove · 06/06/2026 02:51

CornishPorsche · 05/06/2026 16:41

Usual bandwagon crap in the USA - the far right have coopted what they claim to be Norse and Viking imagery therefore the perception has become that that entirety of Scandinavian history is problematic.

Lack of education is a real problem.

What has this go to do with the USA - "
But the response to their creative send-off has split opinion in Norway", the critics are Norwegian?

murasaki · 06/06/2026 01:18

Technically cote d'ivoire too, and we want to off him, so I hope he looks good, open that chequebook, Palace!

murasaki · 06/06/2026 01:12

Ohcrap082024 · 06/06/2026 00:19

Yes, the same ones. I think they must have got very, very hot with all that running around in the sun.

As an Arsenal fan, I’m going to definitely watch the Norway games. One must support one’s club captain and all that.

On the grounds of where ones club players play for, I'm supporting, post England, in number of players order, Belgium, Scotland, Sweden, Argentina, France. But we do have an ex player for Curacao, which is amazing, go Leandro Bacuna.

OtterLovesItsRock · 06/06/2026 00:25

Please can the fit men in Londinium dress as Romans this summer 😋

olivepicanto · 06/06/2026 00:24

canuckup · 05/06/2026 18:23

Me too 😂 😆

So why do you think it's "problematic "?

OtterLovesItsRock · 06/06/2026 00:23

Not reading the article.

Vikings are 🔥🔥🔥

Sweet dreams 😍

MovedlikeHarlowinMonteCarlo · 06/06/2026 00:21

Problematic is such an annoying word.

Ohcrap082024 · 06/06/2026 00:19

Wauwinet · 05/06/2026 16:46

Are these the ones I saw on TikTok earlier sprawled shirtless all over the pitch because of the heat in the States? 👀

Yes, the same ones. I think they must have got very, very hot with all that running around in the sun.

As an Arsenal fan, I’m going to definitely watch the Norway games. One must support one’s club captain and all that.

YoBetty · 05/06/2026 22:52

Face? Bovvered?

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Dollymylove · 05/06/2026 22:49

RichPetuniaAgain · 05/06/2026 16:43

Not problematic at all. It’s a bit of fun.

Fun isnt allowed any more. Did nobody tell you?

VividPinkTraybake · 05/06/2026 22:44

coulditbeme2323 · 05/06/2026 16:42

Say no more

It's the fucking daily mail trying to stir outrage and your falling for it. Don't be so high and mighty. It isn't the "woke" people who are reactionary idiots here...

Papster · 05/06/2026 22:13

roses2 · 05/06/2026 18:41

Is the photo AI generated? It looks so fake!

The photographer did a shoot about the shoot to debunk claims it was faked

Desperatelyseekinglazysusan · 05/06/2026 21:03

Love it! Maybe all the teams should do a Historical period photoshoot? It would be epic! I live in what used to be Danelaw. We love a Viking link round here.

Jc2001 · 05/06/2026 20:42

canuckup · 05/06/2026 16:35

I personally don't think it's that bad??

https://www.dailymail.com/sport/football/article-15876347/Norway-World-Cup-photoshoot-Viking-Erling-Haaland.html

Obviously nothing excuses the pillaging all those years ago, etc etc

Jesus have people really got nothing better to do than complain about stuff like this.

Gonnagetgoingreturnsagain · 05/06/2026 20:42

Cailleach1 · 05/06/2026 18:56

You’ll get short shrift, I’d say. I visited Denmark recently. Don’t forget that Norway and Denmark were one area during the Viking era. They weren’t the two different countries that they are today. In their national museum in Copenhagen, they had lots of exhibits relaying their sort of Danish colonial efforts. So, Greenland obviously. But the far east, as well as Africa. They sold their islands in the Caribbean to the US as recently as the early 1900’s.

They had displays about how people suffered under them with colonisation, and slavery, as you went from each exhibit to another. About how lives were ruined.

It was a completely different story when I went to Roskilde, the old capital and where the vikings stored their boats. They had exhibits about the Viking raids, and establishment of all their settlements and cities in Britain and Ireland. There was certainly no handwringing about how terrible it was, or how they were very naughty boys indeed. It was rather a fact of history. I also saw a thing about how they could take the credit for the fall of Anglo Saxon England too because the Normans from the Norman Invasion were their diaspora really.

I reckon they’ll say ‘no thanks necessary’.

I know, not Norway per se, but they were the same group of ‘privateers’, and the countries were not separate as today.

I’ve been to Roskilde and saw all you saw. Stunning isn’t it?

AChunkOfPurestGreenMilady · 05/06/2026 20:37

If that sort of thing floats your longship have a look at some Heilung ...

In other news, anyone for a MN trip to Lindisfarne on the off chance?

cramptramp · 05/06/2026 20:06

I don’t care if some people are offended by it.

Cailleach1 · 05/06/2026 20:05

Description of the Danish Vikings in the Chronicle of John of Wallingford, 13th Century.

’… for they are wont, after the fashion of their country, to comb their hair every day, to bathe every Saturday, to change their garments often, and set off their persons by many frivolous devices.’

‘In this matter, they laid siege to the virtue of the married women, and persuaded the daughters even of the nobles to be their concubines.’

Bit curious about the dating, as surely we’re after the Norman Conquest at this stage. I think it is in retrospect. Like Bede.

Frodocheerio · 05/06/2026 19:46

FernandoSor · 05/06/2026 18:14

Better never go to an Amon Amarth gig, they’d have a heart attack.

I’ve lived to see the day Amon Amarth get a mention on Mumsnet! raises horn

Cailleach1 · 05/06/2026 19:43

There was one very funny section about some chappie or other in England who was complaining that the women liked the fact that the Vikings were so clean. It must have been in relation to a settlement.

He complained that not only did the Danes/vikings wash, but they washed EVERY WEEK. They were turning the women’s heads with that funny carry on.

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