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Christian conversion and Christian memory politics stripped the Vikings of much of their mythology, heritage, and historical memory, leaving modern interpreters with a filtered archive.
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Christian conversion and Christian memory politics stripped the Vikings of much of their mythology, heritage, and historical memory, leaving modern interpreters with a filtered archive.
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In Jiang's contrast, the Christianized version of Ragnarok softens the Norse ending by letting humans reconstitute the world, while the Norse ending leaves everything dead.
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The Viking Age ended when Vikings became successful enough to be absorbed into European nobility, Christianized, and turned into protectors of the same powers they had pressured.
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"And as I explained in today's lecture, there are many actually good reasons why you would want to preserve an oral tradition. That's the..."
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"But the main source of our understanding is through Norse mythology. Unfortunately we only have a fraction of their entire mythology. Their mythology, it's..."
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"And these three major gods will kill Imar and from Imar's birth carcass they will build the universe. Okay? That's the beginning. But there's..."
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"Okay? That's the Christian tradition. In the Norse tradition in the Norse tradition everything ends. And you may think to yourself oh well this..."
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"So, the structure of your military determined the structure of your political system. So, the Europeans purposely did not respond to Viking threat because..."
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"And, as Christians, they would convert their own followers and their own people as well. Remember, the spread of religion is usually a top..."
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The Vikings do not look important because they left fewer books.
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