The image of a 'white Norse Viking' is just racist fiction

[DaveInTexas]

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After New Zealand passed new gun laws this week, most automatic and semi-automatic weapons have become outlawed there as of Friday — a swift response to the March 15 shootings in Christchurch that left 50 Muslim men, women and children dead at the hands of an alleged white supremacist terrorist. But guns weren’t the only weapon used by the shooter.

The shootings followed the release of materials some have called a manifesto but that has more accurately been called a “media plan.” In it are multiple medieval references, several involving medieval Vikings, which these days function as a signal to white supremacists. Along with much else from the European medieval world, the Viking past is part of the far right’s standard visual and textual imaginary. That vision of a Viking world depends on contemporary digital and filmic popular culture — such as the TV show Vikings and Viking-adjacent video games — as well as on academic and historical sources.

But far-right Viking medievalism is not about historical accuracy. Rather, it’s used to create narratives. So, to resist the medieval narratives that activate violent hate, we must create counternarratives — and to do that, we must understand the real Viking past and how it has been weaponized.

The term “Viking” possibly comes from the Old Norse word víkingr (sea warrior). As Stefan Brink and Neil Price’s The Viking World describes, historically, it referred to seafaring groups who traversed the seas, oceans and rivers to raid, trade and colonize around the 10th and 11th centuries. They established settler colonies across the Mediterranean, Caspian, Black, Arctic and North Atlantic seas and waterways, maintaining a presence in regions ranging from present-day Russia and Europe to the Americas. Crucially, they were not homogeneous seafarers as is often imagined; they were multicultural and multiracial. But until recently, scholarly discussions of the Vikings in relation to race and a Global Middle Ages had been sidelined.

So where does the white supremacist vision of Viking genealogy come from?

Despite the fact that real Viking history was multicultural, academic medieval studies have historically been to blame for the upholding of that imaginary past.

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This will leave the nigger felon league Minnesota Vikings in a bad spot. Name change coming!

[Sandy]

This could be the biggest bullshit Time ever had, and so much of their bullshit over the years is pretty hard to top.

Crucially, they were not homogeneous seafarers as is often imagined; they were multicultural and multiracial. But until recently, scholarly discussions of the Vikings in relation to race and a Global Middle Ages had been sidelined.

The man who is accused of attacking two teenage girls (one in a hijab) and murdering Rick Best and Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche in Portland, Ore., in 2017 has linked himself to the idea of “Vinland,” the concept of a Viking North America onto which an imaginary Odinist past has been superimposed.

Rather, it has come from Taika Waititi, the indigenous Maori director and writer. His movie Thor: Ragnarok — in which Thor’s hammer, a medieval item regularly brandished by extremists, is destroyed — was a multiracial and postcolonial counternarrative to the white Viking narrative circulating through the alt-right digital ecosystem. After decades of building up the violent Viking vision, more such stories will be needed to disrupt this medieval machine.

The article offers no justification of "multicultural or multiracial." Can I say that 2+2=5 in "multi-ethnic math," and offer no justification? That's what Time is doing.

The Vikings were Scandinavian and whoever they assimilated. They were primarily Norse, and that's it. This means they were white, which is no more of a sin than samurai were Japanese (even though niggers and coddlers invented a myth of that nigger samurai).

If someone imagines himself a modern Viking and thus all white people are to blame, then will Time also blame all niggers for what one Black Panther does? (Actually they should because of the savagery of their entire species, but that's beside the point of liberal double standards.) There are some xenophobic Japanese, Chinese, Germans, hell, xenophobes in every culture, and notwithstanding all the many different cultures within Japan, China, Germany, France, Spain, you name it, we don't judge an entire culture by just one person.

Mjolnir's destruction in the third Thor had nothing to do with being anti-right. It's just part of the story to show how powerful Hela was. But I guess it's hard for a libtard to actually watch a movie when going down on its nigger boo, right? FFS, libtards have to read what's never there. I went to a school that's ranked as liberal as Berkeley, where I had to take a required race class among other things. It had a lot of "deconstructing" "racist white narratives" when not wasting my time with nigger writings (if they can be called that).

"multiracial and postcolonial counternarrative to the white Viking narrative circulating through the alt-right digital ecosystem"

That will definitely be the stupidest thing I'll see all day. It goes beyond regular libtard word salad.

[Sandy]

This will leave the nigger felon league Minnesota Vikings in a bad spot. Name change coming!

Those niggers are guilty of cultural appropriation. There were no nigger vikings any more than there were Burmese among Native Americans.