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5 Epic Viking Stories

 
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The Viking Age, the period of great Scandinavian expansion from the late 8th to the late 11th century – is normally associated with violent raids and warfare. But in fact, Viking people were highly civilized, and greatly valued the arts – especially storytelling, about ancient myths, heroic legends, folk tales, and family and local histories. These stories circulated orally, often in the form of epic poems, usually passed on through successive generations, but many were written down in the 13th century, mainly by scholars in Iceland, which today form the basis of much of what we know about ancient Norse myths and legends, Sagas which are supposedly based on true stories of real Viking Age people.
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One of the most important works of Old English literature, Beowulf is an epic poem consisting of over 3,000 lines, beautifully written in alliterative verse. Set in Scandinavia, Beowulf was the hero of a northern Germanic tribe, in what is now southern Sweden.
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Ash Nazg Durbatulûk, Ash Nazg Gimbatul, Ash Nazg Thrakatulûk, Agh Burzum-ishi Krimpatul
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I have one story.

PASS IS CAUGHT !
DIGGS !
SIDELINE !
TOUCHDOWN !
UNBELIEVABLE !
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For the Vikings, this was the essence of war:it's a mystery that comes out of nowhere and grows for reasons nobody can control, until it shakes the whole world apart. Njal's saga ends with a vision of war as the underlying horror of the world, always waiting underneath the frail mirage of peace. In a final dream image, spectral women are seen working an occult and horrible loom: "Men's heads were used in place of weights, and men's intestines for the weft and warp; a sword served as the beater, and the shuttle was an arrow. And these were the words the women were chanting:

Blood rains
From the cloudy web
On the broad loom
Of slaughter.
The web of man
Gray as armor
Is being woven."

[link to americandigest.org]

And the original article below

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We cam, we saw, they ded.
The End
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Viking people were highly civilized, and greatly valued the arts – especially storytelling, about ancient myths, heroic legends, folk tales, and family and local histories. These stories circulated orally, often in the form of epic poems, usually passed on through successive generations, but many were written down in the 13th century, mainly by scholars in Iceland, which today form the basis of much of what we know about ancient Norse myths and legends, Sagas which are supposedly based on true stories of real Viking Age people.
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Our ancestors entire way of life and history was nearly destroyed by Christianity. The Northern European people have a long, long fascinating history.

All that remains was squirreled away in remote Iceland (out of reach from the wack job Christians). Merely remnants of who we were, what we believed, where we came from.

Contrast the Eddas with the Vedas. The Eddas contain a few scraps. That's how complete the job was. The Vedas are voluminous. So many books, so many volumes. Thankfully the Vedas weren't destroyed too!

When you see the BLM/Antifa people burning, looting and pulling down statues. Know that your ancestors faced the exact same thing when the Christians came to town.





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