[quote]AsaAkira13 wrote:
"The vikings had to plunder because they lived in such harsh lands, the result was a form of naturally enforced eugenics that led to a genetic level where they all reached a certain stature, like Giraffes did and black people in North America have today.
This stuff really inst up for debate, it is just a fact."
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The GERMANIC tribes were 5’11 to 6’2 dude. Do you realise that can not be put against people’s sizes today with a massive disparity in calorie access and all the modern things we have to let us grow.
The average federal soldier in the American civil war was 5ft 8 and 3 quarter inches.
The “other” Vikings" most people think of as the Vikings were smaller, because their land was more forgiving, meaning it didn’t enforce such harsh selection processes on its inhabitants.
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Lol you really need to educate yourself on a topic before telling people their opinion on said topic is not an educated one.
The Vikings weren’t only from Sweden homeslice!
Name a tribe… OK
Visigoths
vandals
Ostrogoths
Burgundians
Lombards
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The German Vikings were tall and for the times giants before men, because they were in much harsher lands than their Scandinavian counterparts.
This lead to the biggest and strongest only surviving, reproducing and creating the Aryan man the Germans and British like to think of themselves as, many years before our inbreeding took our genetic stock down quite a few levels.
Odin be with you.[/quote]
sigh I don’t mean to further derail the thread, but you’re wrong.
obligatory credentials comparison: you’re twenty and haven’t even been to college. I’m a fair bit older and studied Scandinavian culture for a few terms.
The term ‘viking’ originated in the late 8th century; its origin is debated but one likely explanation is that it comes from their way of attacking from the open sea by sailing into fjords or attacking out of them - the name for those was ‘vik’. Geographically, those do not occur in what is now known as Germany; they are a distinctly Scandinavian feature.
Concerning the ‘survival=height’ argument… It sounds oh so good in theory, but then, why have humans in the Western world grown taller and taller since 1900, while living became increasingly easy? Because nutrition is crucial for producing big fuckers on a regular basis. So you’re contradicting yourself here.
Concerning the ‘non-northern tribes’ you mentioned:
Visigoths, Ostrogoths and vandals were walking around Europe centuries before the term ‘viking’ or raids on Irish monasteries ever occurred. This would be like asking an 18th ct Bostonian if he’s a Red Sox fan - pure anachronism.
Burgundians and Lombards did come from Scandinavia and settled elsewhere; in this respect, they can be compared to the Rus. Scandinavian Expats.
