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by f6v 696 days ago
I always find it ironic how Denmark is proud of Vikings and protects borders at the same time. There’re axes on border guards’ uniforms. Also, the traffic lights have a viking with an axe instead of a regular figure. Yet Vikings were universally hated back in the day for not respecting borders.
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"Not respecting borders" is an odd way to summarize indiscriminate killing of unarmed people, burning houses and crops, robbery, raping and forcing people into slavery including sex slavery.
I mean, everyone was doing it once in a while back then. But Vikings were probably one of the worst offenders.