I get my history through manga, strictly manga, so Vinland Saga has taught me that you’re wrong and the Vikings would have done so had they not been so embroiled in their own world.
I’m kidding about getting my history through manga. I don’t think Vikings would have behaved any differently from the other white people who came to the Americas, though. Just like Native Americans would have absolutely destroyed the white immigrants if they had equivalent firepower before their arrival.
We like to paint these groups as better because our current circumstances are shit, but the reality is they’re just more shadows on the wall.
I guess it depends on if we are talking pre christianity vikings or post. Because pre in particular are pretty good at integration. Pretty much to the point they are subsumed. Post on the other hand? Probably more genocide.
I get my history through manga, strictly manga, so Vinland Saga has taught me that you’re wrong and the Vikings would have done so had they not been so embroiled in their own world.
I’m kidding about getting my history through manga. I don’t think Vikings would have behaved any differently from the other white people who came to the Americas, though. Just like Native Americans would have absolutely destroyed the white immigrants if they had equivalent firepower before their arrival.
We like to paint these groups as better because our current circumstances are shit, but the reality is they’re just more shadows on the wall.
I guess it depends on if we are talking pre christianity vikings or post. Because pre in particular are pretty good at integration. Pretty much to the point they are subsumed. Post on the other hand? Probably more genocide.
All relatively speaking of course.