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I find them interesting, but again I am a history nerd, and have a spot for the early Middle ages.
I’m more of a Jutes and Frisii guy myself
watch out, you’re gonna get cancelled
I prefer Britons and Picts.
I’m more into the Gaels and Normans
Screw the Vikings. Go Pack Go!
“White Anglo-Saxon Protestants” has a certain connotation here in the US, and it’s not a good one.
I’m a big history buff so I have an interest with the anglo Saxons, but for most Americans thier official education of Anglo Saxons starts and stops at the Norman conquest. Most shows or movies about Vikings that Americans watch depicts them poorly because they are uselly the antagonists.
My speculation is that “viking fever” is coming to end because thier increased exposure causes increasing familiarity which will cause them to loose thier exotic aspect as well as more people realizing that they shouldn’t be romanticizing marauders. Who knows maybe thier might come of a wave of pro Saxon media coming out in the near future as a reaction or counter point to viking media. That or the media moves onto some other culture or time period to romanticize.
I’m a Lions fan, personally…
Vikings and Anglo-Saxons are meh, Normans are where it’s at.
No comment. /s
(My nick is a book title.)
the isles belong to the celts
Yes. Poor guys always get overlooked. Though not by Jefferson.
Vikings are having a rough year so I could see some fans defecting.
Cousins is getting old and he ain’t the one for big primetime games.
Screw the Viqueens. SEAHAWKS STAND UP!
Most known through the acronym WASP. I’m willing to bet UK history isn’t much known outside of our revolution and founding.
Just about the only exposure Americans will get to Anglo-Saxon culture in sxhool is if they read Beowulf, which will of course be translates into modern English. I remember the Venerable Bede also coming up a few times in history and English classes.
Interesting that when my wife, who is a native German speaker, heard a reading in Old English, she remarked how similarnit sounds to the dying modern German dialect of Plaat Deutsch. Which is spoken in the region of Germany wherefrom the ancient Saxons migrated to Britain.
Roman’s and crusaders> anglos and vikings
Absolutely. Just ancient cultures in general.
I find most ancient and medieval cultures interesting
Vikings were cool, but the Celts were cooler.
I’m only thinking of Beowulf when I think about Anglo-Saxons.
Fell in love with that entire time period when I first watched [13th Warrior.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYQn9jfZjJM)
Which reading about them, made me fall in love with the Hussars, and then Rome, then Sparta… now I have a small library that covers a wide Varity of history.
I’m obsessed with Anglo Saxons, they’re so much more interesting than the Vikings imo.
Here’s a good documentary playlist on them if anyone’s interested. Guy who narrates has a very soothing voice, great to fall asleep to
Also, because it’s a fucking problem and this unfortunately needs to be said, he’s not a white supremacist who’s trying to drive some weird narrative, using ahistorical accounts of Anglo Saxons to justify his hate
It’s just the facts
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4kqG-CL4ToBW0Dhs1zBk3UmuCdoK23Ww&si=lpSJEwGBWgh88TJx
Also here’s another one
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLECfvIJRD9sxA2DvgS9y14o0hTPB0QpV8&si=olN7Mzu9_l0hUJ_Y
Vikings had better branding; I mean you had “Alfred the Great” but that doesn’t really compare to “Ivar the Boneless”. His brothers were Bjorn Ironside and Sigurd Snake-In-the-Eye. I’m sorry, but Aethelstan (as impressive as he was) “King of the English” just can’t compare.
Packers are better. I’m not familiar with the Angl-Saxons. Are they an expansion team?
Hello, I am an American who virulently hates the Vikings. They were heathen rapists and murdered who killed untold thousands and subjugates Britian to a century of darkness and violence.
I love Alfred the great and Wessex. He is the man who made England and saved Christendom on the British isles. God save Alfred the great! They are more than cool they are glorious!
If I had a time machine I would bring a Maxim gun to king Alfred and kill Every Dane who so much as thought about stepping foot on noble Albion.
Frisii fan here. We were the first to go Viking