• ripcord@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I mean, he did get right that Odinism is the one true faith, so I’m tempted to hear out the rest.

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      3 months ago

      Yeah, well not even French Normans believed that.

      In exchange for land and a title, they converted as a formality and where indistinguishable from the rest of French nobility in a generation or two. Basically an afterthought.

      Contrary to popular depictions, vikings were generally pragmatic people.