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The next class's promised focus: the Viking cultural system, especially the relation between community and individual.
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Viking worldview
The next class's promised focus: the Viking cultural system, especially the relation between community and individual.
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The Viking community is not primarily a written tradition but a flexible set of living memories that the community repeatedly retells and reimagines.
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For Jiang, the Viking ethos is not winning grades, money, glory, or formal tradition; it is doing something shocking and new enough to add to the community's imagination and memory.
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Viking loyalty means love and willingness to die for companions, not obedience inside a hierarchy.
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Jiang, citing Neil Price, presents Viking individuality as a composite of outer shape, luck, inner essence, and inherited family spirit rather than a simple soul/body dualism.
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The next Viking class will expand the idea of community and individual into a full treatment of the Viking cultural system and worldview.
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"So his friends, including his biological son, Marcus Brutus, killed him. It was more important for Marcus Brutus to be loyal to the traditions..."
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"Okay? So, this is a hard idea to understand. Okay? How is this different from the Roman tradition? But let me tell you a..."
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"The Canadian border. They crossed the Canadian border. Then they got out of the car and went into the forest to take a piss...."
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"two guys who got in their car and drove 24 hours just so that they can go to Canada to take a piss. All..."
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"these are the two most obvious examples of how Norse mythology um still impacts our world today. Okay? And as we go along the..."
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"Okay? Loyalty. Loyalty means love for each other. It does not mean obedience. Remember, in the Viking world it is very egalitarian. There's very..."
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"What do these stories tell us about the understanding of the individual in the Viking world? This is Neil Price and to prepare for..."
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"You nurture it by showing courage. So in battle if you run off if you enter the battle of courage the pet will be..."
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"Great. Great. Any more questions? Great. Okay. So next class we will do the cultural system. The cultural world view of the Vikings. Okay?..."
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"...that okay so I will try my best to reconstruct the Viking worldview but please understand there are severe constraints and limitations and the..."
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"...and look at the evidence and the examples. Okay. Alright. The Viking worldview. Alright. First thing I need you guys to understand is that..."
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"...of all he's a Muslim. So he has his own cultural worldview that is in conflict with the Viking worldview."
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The Vikings do not look important because they left fewer books.
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