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Sweden. Heh. Top kek.
Time to share my Sweden folder.
It is weird to read stories like this and see pics like this and realize that Swedes are descended from some of the most brutally violent tribes in history.
They were fricking vikings for God's sake!
Vikings are actually a myth created by Hollywood that holds no truth in it .
Vikings have lost every single frontal battle they fought and they only sacked small villages or Monasteries.
They are an invented myth fueled by American movies.
Most of the Vikings were from what is now Norway and Denmark BTW, not from nowdays Sweden.
Yup - among the Northmen the Swedes were the big pussies. Any raping and pillaging was done by Norwegians and Danes. Who woulda thunk?? ;-)
But they did manage to sail to America hundreds of years before Columbus. And that is no small feat.
Heh, not to be a smart ass but...
The viking raids in western Europe by the danes and norwegians is more recognized by the anglo-world because of their great influence in your history. Danish king Haral Blåtand used to rule England as well, and they went messing things up on the Brittish islands, France and later on even southern Italy. Colonizing northern France (Normandy) where you guys know William the conqueror came from to claim back England. Not to mention Leif Erikssons route to America.
All this was possible due to the collapse of the western roman empire, and the lack of stabillity and centralization that occured then. Later on when the medival european kingdoms started to take place better organization managed to bring a better defense.
Meanwhile, the vikings of what would later become Sweden where mostly fighting eachother (during most of the time what today is Sweden would be divided in the middle part, Svealand, and the southern part, Götaland, which basicly where different countries that fought against eachother and betwen the different clans within them) and focusing on the east. They had the Baltic Sea and would raid and colonize Finland, the baltics, northern Poland and what would later become Russia. Vikings from todays Sweden would found Novgorod and the kingdom of Kiev (by Rurik who's supposed to be from the east of Sweden at the lake of Mälaren, near todays Stockholm) and lay the foundation for Russia and Ukraine, traveling south to Constantinopel and become mercenaries to the Byzantine Empire and where even in the emperors lifeguard. Some merchants even reached Bagdad (which might explaine some of swedes fascination for the arabic world
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In the late 900's the king of Svealand, Erik Segersäll, fought a battle against the king of Götaland, Styrbjörn, at the battle of Fyrisvallarna which he won and unified the both kingdoms into one called Svearike (compare to the swedish name for Sweden is: Sverige). Later on Erik chased away the danish king Sven Tveskägg for supporting Styrbjörn and ruled Denmark for a while, until Sven reclaimed the throne.
During the rest of the history Sweden and Denmark would go to war on eachother over and over again where Sweden would found an empire and challange evrybody around the Baltic Sea and even deep into mainland Germany, and Norway would mostly be passive and later on a colony to Denmark until Sweden conquered it at 1814.
These events are not that famouse in the western (anglo) world of today which might explaine why the norwegian and danish vikings gets more reputation. And no, im not trying to apologize for todays Swedens cuckiness, neither to compensate, but when someone claims that historicly Sweden has always been the pussy among the scandinavian countries, well then a clearyfication is needed