• Barabas [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      Mostly just a white supremacist dog whistle. The whole clash of civilisations thing.

      Same reason we get Kash Patel saying ‘See you in Valhalla’ about Charlie Kirk. It is all just cosplay.

      • Keld [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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        Which is so annoying given that the vikings and muslims were pretty chill with one another. (For bad reasons, sure, the shared love of the slave trade was obviously bad) But a reason we know so much about the vikings is muslims writing shit down, and there’s a bunch of islamic world treasure in viking burial sites.