Can I get a viking up in this B gimme a Hel yeah

[Iceberg1er]

How do we have these river systems and we don't have viking longship??

I mean you went totally Frankish with the Normans here. Give me some vikings please! They changed the face of western Europe. What do we call the Christian underworld? Hel. The days of the week? Tyrsday, Thorsday, Freysday! So give me a viking civ and a true earth map I have some Saxons and franks to butcher and enslave... With boats that's should go up the little rivers even and wreck those buildings that build upon them. With the some ridiculous movement ability and plunder doesn't count as a move baby.

 

[GeneralZift]

Hell yeah bro

 

[Patine]

How do we have these river systems and we don't have viking longship??

I mean you went totally Frankish with the Normans here. Give me some vikings please! They changed the face of western Europe. What do we call the Christian underworld? Hel. The days of the week? Tyrsday, Thorsday, Freysday! So give me a viking civ and a true earth map I have some Saxons and franks to butcher and enslave... With boats that's should go up the little rivers even and wreck those buildings that build upon them. With the some ridiculous movement ability and plunder doesn't count as a move baby.

Their descendants are reduced to making cheap furniture you have to assemble yourself and meatballs ruined by the inclusion of mushrooms.

That said, "Vikings," were not a civilization, they were the Norse term for raiders. Specifically from the notion of, "going a viking," meaning, "going a raiding." The Norse were the people, and the majority were farmers, fishermen, craftsmen, artisans, royal court bureaucrats, housewives, midwives, religious figures (mostly Christians from the late 10th Century onwards), etc., like the majority of most Medieval civilizations. In fact, going a viking was like escapades for many modern youth for a year or two between high school and university or rumspringa for Amish - something to burn off youthful energy. The famous Viking leaders, like Cnut the Great, Ingvar the Boneless, Erick Bloodaxe, Rollo, Ragnar, Rurik, and Erick the Red (the latter of whom was apparently a wanted criminal in Iceland and/or Norway when he colonized Greenland) were not, themselves, "Vikings," but royal magnates using bands of these action-seeking (and very often, wonton and excessive, to say the least) youth, to engage in endeavours and campaigns not necessarily condoned by, and often becoming threats to, those on thrones back in Scandinavia.

A very fascinating history, definitely, but we should understand what a, "Viking," actually is - and is not.

 

[Alexander's Hetaroi]

That said, "Vikings," were not a civilization, they were the Norse term for raiders. Specifically from the notion of, "going a viking," meaning, "going a raiding." The Norse were the people, and the majority were farmers, fishermen, craftsmen, artisans, royal court bureaucrats, housewives, midwives, religious figures (mostly Christians from the late 10th Century onwards), etc., like the majority of most Medieval civilizations. In fact, going a viking was like escapades for many modern youth for a year or two between high school and university or rumspringa for Amish - something to burn off youthful energy. The famous Viking leaders, like Cnut the Great, Ingvar the Boneless, Erick Bloodaxe, Rollo, Ragnar, Rurik, and Erick the Red (the latter of whom was apparently a wanted criminal in Iceland and/or Norway when he colonized Greenland) were not, themselves, "Vikings," but royal magnates using bands of these action-seeking (and very often, wonton and excessive, to say the least) youth, to engage in endeavours and campaigns not necessarily condoned by, and often becoming threats to, those on thrones back in Scandinavia.

A very fascinating history, definitely, but we should understand what a, "Viking," actually is - and is not.

Yeah, I'm sure what they want is actually a Norse civ with Viking elements. Me too.