I have a piece in @TIME. Enjoy. http://time.com/5569399/viking-history-white-nationalists/ ….
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I'm not sure what it is you're trying to say here? Reclaim what? And are you not justifying the racists' beliefs by saying what they are saying is justified if it were true that Nordic people were blond and blue eyed? But of course that's a fact, not fiction.
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Replying to @giggs_boson @dorothyk98 and
The main idea of the article was to take back the narrative that Vikings were solely white Nodric people. From the article: "Crucially, they were not homogeneous seafarers as is often imagined; they were multicultural and multiracial."
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Replying to @CourtneyPalmbus @DiegoATLAW and
You're right. She's a medievalist and professor of English, specialising in medieval literature. You dont have to be a historian to study history
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Replying to @CourtneyPalmbus @MrIndignant and
It's fascinating when people want to ignore the second part of my tagline, which is that I had a Fulbright in Iceland. So yes, I read Old Norse, Old Swedish, as well as read modern Icelandic, Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian.
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Replying to @dorothyk98 @CourtneyPalmbus and
And as my last article was just published in the Medieval Chronicle Journal. A double-blind peer-reviewed journal run by historians, I am pretty sure my peer reviewers, not to mention the journal editors are fine with my "history" training. Or you can ask some of my medieval
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history professors from grad school: Richard Rouse, Pat Geary, etc. So have fun with that line of argumentation. (h/t Maud) I could have also pointed out Snorri Sturluson uses the word vikingar (pl) to describe the North African opponents of Sigurð Jorsalafari in Magnussonarsaga.
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Replying to @dorothyk98 @CourtneyPalmbus and
We could always compare all the Old Norse primary material evidence. Waiting....
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