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Why the political correctness though?
What does this even mean?
‘Viking’ was a job, not a matter of heredity: ancient DNA study (2020)
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> rather than Scandinavian Strange, being in North America, I've yet to meet anyone identify themself as having viking blood, but we refer to Scandinavians as being of viking ancestry all the time.
It's common among usian nazis of the David Lane strain, and on Facebook you can find quite a lot of "viking" groups mainly populated by usian dinguses, some of whom claim some scandinavian ancestor or other.
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I don't think I've ever heard anyone IRL say they have viking ancestors.
Yearning for Valhalla is more a specific type of extremely online poster / podcast bro / FBI director kind of behavior.
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I don't think I've ever heard anyone IRL say they have viking ancestors. Yearning for Valhalla is more a specific type of extremely online poster / podcast bro / FBI director kind of behavior.
Would wearing a haircut from that dreadful viking TV show and a Thor hammer necklace count? I’ve seen quite a meme-worthy characters over the years
Re: ‘Viking’ was a job, not a matter of heredity: ancient DNA study (2020)
#26It is linguistically possible that "viking" was simply a self-referential ethnonym, with the first part meaning "home" or "village".
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Eur...
Compare Ancient Greek [w]oikos, and all the various ves, vas, wieś, which can be found all over Eastern Europe.
Re: ‘Viking’ was a job, not a matter of heredity: ancient DNA study (2020)
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
> rather than Scandinavian Strange, being in North America, I've yet to meet anyone identify themself as having viking blood, but we refer to Scandinavians as being of viking ancestry all the time.
I grew up in Minnesota and have literally never heard anyone ever say this about me or any other person of Scandinavian origin.
You've never heard of your NFL football team?
Re: ‘Viking’ was a job, not a matter of heredity: ancient DNA study (2020)
#28Never trust the headline. From the article:
> And comparing DNA and archaeology at individual sites suggests that for some in the Viking bands, "Viking" was a job description, not a matter of heredity.