I wonder what provoked the Viking Age behavior of my ancestors? Or maybe those reports are early atrocity propaganda???
The Normans certainly became exceedingly civilized in Normandy in a single generation, same for the Rus in Russia, Danes in the Danelaw.
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not an expert on this debate, but i remember once hearing a historian going very hmm
at the written sources (ie always de facto: monastic) of said ”atrocities”
always the same verbal formula “raped n pillaged the monastery”, “raped n pilllaged”
9th century “Saddam has WMDs”?
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"manmade deltas and concrete rivers the south takes what the north delivers" - Pavement - Unfair
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