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    • One of several types of white men. I think spreading Viking genes throughout Europe was a major reason for the Renaissance even if the Vikings were a bit grug brained themselves.

    • @Tikkun,
      I’m sure that back then, our feisty, blond friends were all inclusive, and judged people by the content of their character…

      • You know I actually think they did value talent. They might have encountered Turks but probably not rubber lipped sub saharan nogs. A turkroach swordsmith would have been very valuable to the Vikings.

  5. Modern DNA testing proves that Germanic peoples did not make up the majority of “Anglo-Saxon England.”

    The Saga of Ragnar Loðbrók & the Saga of Ragnar’s Sons

    https://www.aldsidu.com/post/the-saga-of-ragnar-loðbrók-the-saga-of-ragnar-s-sons

    The Origins of the Saxons in Saxony & the Anglo-Saxons in England

    https://www.aldsidu.com/post/the-origins-of-the-saxons-in-saxony-england
    https://www.aldsidu.com/post/the-saxon-wars
    https://www.aldsidu.com/post/saxons-vs-anglo-saxons-what-is-the-difference

    https://www.aldsidu.com/post/widukind-s-saga-the-saga-of-the-saxons

    https://www.aldsidu.com/post/germanic-peoples-celtic-peoples-were-different

    https://www.aldsidu.com/post/heathen-leadership-today-historical-heathen-thingdoms-vs-christian-kingdoms
    https://www.aldsidu.com/post/sahsnoð-a-god-unique-to-the-saxons

  6. History shows that Monarchism and feudalism – rule by “nobles,” kings and queens, princes, dukes, barons, etc. – made life nasty, brutish and short for the vast majority of people. During brief intermissions from the endless wars between the various “noble” gangs, when one of them had clearly defeated the others, there was some peace and prosperity and some of the stolen wealth trickled down to the workers who also served as cannon fodder (or spear, sword and arrow fodder) in the wars.

    The successor to feudalism was capitalism that created a bourgeois middle class and more material wealth than feudalism, but continued to enslave or rob the workers and wage endless war including some of the most brutal, destructive wars in human history.

    If Brythonic Britain had been a real republic or federation of republics instead of a Monarchial elitist system, it would have been able to resist all three invasions: the German (Saxon) invasion, the Viking invasion and the Norman invasion.

    The native Brythonic language survives now only in Wales, “English” being a hybrid mixture of German, Scandinavian, Latin and French.

  7. Re: “the entire history of Viking Britain”:

    It is a history of “hostile takeovers” – in the Dark Ages, and we’re still in it.

    Every “noble” or “royal line” if you trace it back far enough began as a gang of common thieves and murderers who were unusually successful – just as “every great fortune is founded on great crime.”

    Bourgeois liberalism (capitalism) and monarchism are natural allies, and they coexist in many places, and there are monarchial elements in the “democratic” U.S.’s constitution and government.

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