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Greenwitchart · Today 18:28

They look good!

I think people these days spend too much time looking for random things to get offended about.

Vikings are part of their history/heritage and this is just a bit of fun.

JustaDream · Today 18:29

Showing this pic to DH. He's cuter than these men but improvements can be made to him like mirroring their stance, clothing and weaponry. I do like me a bit of chauvinist posturing on a Friday evening. Grrrrrrrrr. His blue eyes are dreamy 😍

IcedPurple · Today 18:29

countrygirl99 · Today 17:27

So distracted I didn't add the pic 😂

Stunning scenery.

The fjords are nice too.

DreamyScroller · Today 18:31

Oh do get a grip.

Fimofriend · Today 18:38

countrygirl99 · Today 17:11

If your really lucky looking at that story will get you reels of viking style singers on Facebook. I started getting them when Trump was threatening Greenland a while back. Sight to keep an old girl like me warm in the winter 😁

Could you please give me the name of those Viking singers?

roses2 · Today 18:41

Is the photo AI generated? It looks so fake!

OutingHobbyWife · Today 18:42

England for the English gammons objecting to historical invading and colonising? Shurely shome mishtake?!

My only concern was that they'd have horns on their helmets but they don't so I'm more than happy with it.

BronwenFrideswide · Today 18:51

ThaneOfGlamis · Today 18:11

And now I need to go and watch the last kingdom again. Happy sigh

Ha! When my husband suggests watching The Last Kingdom I never disagree😆

Aiakja · Today 18:52

Looks great, it’s their heritage.

the chronically offended can just not look at the picture.

PlentifulPeoniesPlease · Today 18:54

Whoops I voted wrong. I think it's great!

Has anyone seen the guy who swam around Iceland - he's British, but I bet his genes are pure Norse.

Ross Edgley. He's on Instagram and there was a programme about his swim, forgotten which channel but I watched it on catch up so I expect it's still available. Incredible stuff, he swum in waters I'd be afraid to venture out into on the most seaworthy of big boats.

Norwegian football team- Viking photoshoot - problematic?
JustaDream · Today 18:55

PlentifulPeoniesPlease · Today 18:54

Whoops I voted wrong. I think it's great!

Has anyone seen the guy who swam around Iceland - he's British, but I bet his genes are pure Norse.

Ross Edgley. He's on Instagram and there was a programme about his swim, forgotten which channel but I watched it on catch up so I expect it's still available. Incredible stuff, he swum in waters I'd be afraid to venture out into on the most seaworthy of big boats.

Never seen him but now I'm going to pretend to drown when I see him out and about and hope he saves me lol!

Cailleach1 · Today 18:56

Papster · Today 17:28

‘The Vikings were slavers, and the kidnapping, sale and forced exploitation of human beings was always a central pillar of their culture’

Tens of thousands of Britons were enslaved or sold on as slaves by Vikings.

I feel very wronged by this.

Haaland and his mates should pay restitution.

Where do I apply?

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.

DryTerryandJUNE · Today 18:58

Am I looking at different pictures to everyone else? It looks like a cross between Horrible Histories and a primary school "dress like a viking" day. The one with long hair is certainly not the most beauteous Viking I've ever seen, eeek.
Rape and pillage obviously frowned upon but, as one with Viking genes, I obviously can't grumble - I wouldn't be here had they not gone "sightseeing"!

Tryanalogue · Today 18:59

Lord Nelson! Lord Beaverbrook!

NotDarkGothicMama · Today 19:00

Princessdebthe1st · Today 17:43

If you want to find out more about strong Viking women then I can only encourage you to read about the female warrior on Birka near Stockholm. Archeologists assumed she was male because of the full set of weapons and the richness of her grave. Better still, visit Scandavia yourself and you might just be lucky enough to bump into a modern day Viking (need a hot flush emoji)

www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-reaffirm-famed-ancient-viking-warrior-was-biologically-female-180971541/

I used to visit Denmark and Sweden a lot for work. Sadly, I found it quite depressing being surrounded by beautiful people with outrageous cheekbones while being short, mousy and rather plump myself. It's also frowned upon to perv over ones colleagues.

Lovelyview · Today 19:05

If New Zealand is allowed to do a Haka then Norway is allowed to do Vikings.

Credittocress · Today 19:13

Think they look great, and as someone who lives in a land pillaged by the vikings I don’t find it offensive at all. Think it’s super cool.

countrygirl99 · Today 19:30

Fimofriend · Today 18:38

Could you please give me the name of those Viking singers?

I mostly get Apex Wolf Predator and Shadow of Valhalla.

Nopenott0day · Today 19:31

Nothing Viking about it. All Hollywood shite.

Cailleach1 · Today 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.

Frodocheerio · Today 19:46

FernandoSor · Today 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 · Today 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.

cramptramp · Today 20:06

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

AChunkOfPurestGreenMilady · Today 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?

Gonnagetgoingreturnsagain · Today 20:42

Cailleach1 · Today 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?