Vikings were NOT strong warriors

[Autrigón]

You didn't do any fighting up there. You did raping and looting. Small pox had done the fighting for you.

If it was so easy to conquer the American continent why the Dutch didn't do it?

Oh sure the Dutch tried to have colonies just to say hello to natives and for tourism. Come on...

[The Lawspeaker]

If it was so easy to conquer the American continent why the Dutch didn't do it?

Oh sure the Dutch tried to have colonies just to say hello to natives and for tourism. Come on...

Because we didn't give a toss about long-lasting colonies. Look at New York: we were almost glad to be rid of it as nobody wanted to invest in it. We were more active in trading posts.

[Papastratosels26]

1. They (Varangian Kievan Rus) were simply invited to rule Slavs because they had social status. Slavs willingly invited the Rus to rule them because they considered them prestigious "cool northmen".

2. Greeks probably hired their famous Varangian Gaurd because they were blond and exotic, nothing more. Not because they were good fighters, in fact they completely fucked up at the battle of Manzikert.

3. The final argument is, the Vikings who raided England raided old, defenseless monks and murdered them. This is not an act of strength but cowardice.

So why does everyone masturbate to Vikings? I guess it's just because they were blond ubermensch and everyone wanted to cock-ride them.

P.S. Modern Scandinavians aren't even particularly physically large, barely 2 cm more than southerners such as Greeks.

Discuss.

The Greeks hired them because they were loyal to the emperor. A Greek guard most often betrayed and killed the Emperor to put another one in favor of them.

Varangian if I read it correctly means the oath men in Old Norse.

[PaleoEuropean]

Because we didn't give a toss about long-lasting colonies. Look at New York: we were almost glad to be rid of it as nobody wanted to invest in it. We were more active in trading posts.

Yea most the Dutch here are later immigrants, I am of the few who descend from colonial Dutch (Flemish through one of my mothers ancestors)

[Tigranes]