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Jesus christ, I thought not shutting up about your "viking blood" was just a white American thing
Do you think that Vikings are fictional characters?
I mean, the TV version mostly is. The real guys were cattle farmers with good boats. They did raids and stuff, but so did the Bulgarians. And yeah, the blood means nothing.
Bulgarian khan drank wine from the cup made from the skull of Byzantine emperor, vikings served the Byzantine emperors. I see skill issue here.
~~I'd read this, but my eyes have been gouged out by Basil II Porphyrogenitus.~~
I went with the first non-feared modern group that I thought of causing historical trouble, but maybe some random Muslim empire would have been better. The point was just that their military achievements were nothing special. Vikings had their day and then it was over, basically. To be fair, they were really good boats, that took them all kinds of crazy places, and that's half of the reason why we're talking about them. (The other half being nationalistic shilling from later Germanic people)
Pretty much every steppe nomad culture was OP before the early modern period; from the Turks to the Cumans to the Huns to the proto-Indo-Europeans. And of course the Mongols. Honestly I'm still not sure why.