Tag: Vikings

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Jukka Korpela
Slaves from the North: Finns and Karelians in the East European Slave Trade, 900–1600
Brill, Studies in Global Slavery, Volume 5, 2019

There is a history of human bondage in Europe that the textbooks rarely teach. While the transatlantic slave trade—with its millions of African captives, its plantation economies, and its enduring racial legacy—has commanded the attention of scholars and the public for generations, another vast machinery of enslavement operated across the eastern half of the continent for centuries, harvesting lives from the forests of Finland and Karelia to the steppes of Central Asia and the slave markets of Istanbul, Cairo, and Bukhara. (more…)

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A new book aims to rescue the ancient Germanic tribes of the past from a pernicious, Nazi-era myth: that they were in any way German at all. The True History of the Germanic Peoples: Beyond Myth and Völkisch Ideology by prehistorian Karl Banghard, hopes to show how the ancient Germanic tribes who famously defeated the legions of Rome in the Teutoburg Forest in 9AD were not really the warrior hordes of the popular imagination but a bunch of peaceful, communistic “ragbag hippies.” Anyone prejudiced enough to believe otherwise, the text explains, has just fallen for a racist, Nazi-era fable. (more…)

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This month marks twenty years since the 7/7 attacks of 2005, when suicide-bombers blew themselves up on public transport in London. Naturally, in the run-up to this potentially dangerous anniversary, the British public were warned to be on high alert for the most likely future perpetrators of such obscenities: Vikings. (more…)

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The Norman strain[…]seems to have been radically different in its mental makeup, and to some extent in its physical detail from the Saxons of England and also from their kindred in Scandinavia. The Normans appear to have been a “fine race,” to use a French idiom, and their descendants are often characterized by a tall, slender figure, much less bulky than the typical Teuton, of proud bearing and with clearly marked features of classic Greek regularity. The type is seldom extremely blond and is often dark. These Latinized Vikings were and are animated by a restless and nomadic energy and by a fierce aggressiveness.

-Madison Grant (more…)

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Settlers of Catan is one of the most popular board games in the world. A creation of the late Klaus Teuber, Die Siedler von Catan was first released in Germany in 1995, winning the prestigious Spiel des Jahres award as the best board game of that year. The game has sold over 40 million copies worldwide over the past 29 years. (more…)

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Anne Applebaum
Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine
Great Britain: Penguin Books, 2017

Robert Conquest
The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror Famine
New York: Oxford University Press, Inc., 1986

The [Communist] Party’s . . . rationale for everything done to the kulaks, is summarized with exceptional frankness in a novel published in Moscow in 1934: “Not one of them was guilty of anything, but they belonged to a class that was guilty of everything.” — Robert Conquest (more…)

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Robert Eggers’ The Northman, a retelling of the medieval Scandinavian legend of Amleth, is a masterful tribute to the Viking era. Eggers recreates the world of the Vikings with painstaking attention to detail and great respect for his subject.

Eggers does not have Right-wing sympathies. He has condemned the so-called “misappropriation” of the Vikings by White Nationalists. Yet his dogged commitment to authenticity has resulted in a film of which Joseph Goebbels would approve. (more…)

According to director Robert Eggers, The Northman is an attempt to overcome dangerous stereotypes about the Vikings, such as the idea that they were all-white rather than multicultural.

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Hammering Thor: Rewriting History So that All Vikings are Black Lesbians

After debuting in Europe last month, Viking historical action saga The Northman opened in the United States on Friday. At the film’s London premiere, director Robert Eggers said that he was trying to re-appropriate — or maybe the actual word he used was expropriate, dis-appropriate, inappropriate, or extricate — Viking history from the Nordicists and white supremacists and lovers of historical facts who would dare deny that Viking societies were multicultural, progressive, and perfectly in lockstep with everything that filmmakers in 2022 have been led to believe is righteous and pure. (more…)

Aurora borealis (northern lights) over Sweden.

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The discovery in the 1960s of a Viking settlement at L’Anse aux Meadows on the northern tip of the island of Newfoundland in Canada is one of the most striking, if little-heralded, findings in the history of European historical research and archaeology. The staggering accomplishment of Norwegian explorer Helge Ingstad and his archaeologist wife Anne Stine Ingstad is far less known than it should be.

The Ingstads furnished the first conclusive physical proof of Norse settlement on the mainland of North America around 1000 AD, as recorded in the Saga of Erik the Red and the Saga of the Greenlanders, written two hundred years after the events took place. (more…)

Mårten Eskil Winge, Thor’s Fight with the Giants, 1872.

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When the average person thinks of Sweden, they probably think of IKEA, meatballs, ABBA, and PewDiePie. When people in the Dissident Right think about Sweden, we often think of a country at the pinnacle of anti-white propaganda and anarcho-tyranny. Nevertheless, Swedish culture has had a great influence on my life, from the music I listen to each day to the furniture I fall asleep on each night. Furthermore, much of our fascination and modern-day perception of the Vikings comes from a small group of Swedish writers from the Geatish Society (more…)

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Danish translation here

“ODIN IS WITH US!” shouts the blond beast protagonist in the trailer for the new video game, Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla. The trailer depicts the Vikings as the noble heroes, fighting against scoundrel Saxons who lie about their misdeeds. The teaser is narrated by an irate Alfred the Great who pillories the Nordic raiders for their bloodlust, godlessness, and cruelty. (more…)

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For a long time, the tales of Norse voyages to North America described in the Saga of Erik the Red and the Saga of the Greenlanders were thought to be legends. It was not until the nineteenth century that historians and archaeologists began to investigate the subject of Pre-Columbian Norse exploration in earnest. The first to do so was the Danish historian Carl Christian Rafn, whose Antiquitates Americanæ (published in 1837) sought to ascertain the location of Vinland. (more…)

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I have heard it often said that no art is being produced on the Right anymore, that everything we see and hear and experience is deconstructive of traditional Western values, particularly in film. This, however, shows the laziness of many of the talking heads on the Right, who are only too ready to churn out bad news porn and not willing enough to do a modicum of research or promote those creating content. (more…)