We have all seen different versions, hollywood, versions of what a viking looks like and how terribly violent they were. But after comprehending the reading on the Vikings forms of Bloodshed i can honestly say i have never seen a "butterfly cut" in a major motion picture. The horror of seeing some obe sliced open through their back and their lungs and guts flood out. Hollywood could never perform that!
I also never realized that viking viking ships sailed on rivers, i guess i only thought of them saling on the open ocean. The vikings were known for being extremely violent, but having only begun these raids on weak and non-threatening villages, makes them even more merciless.
Throughout the reading on vikings i wondered how one becomes an ex-viking. How one would go back into leading a normal, well kind of normal, life. Can they just stop the bloodshed cold turkey? Can they transorm themself into one of the "locals", forgetting their past of vengeance and hate?
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