"Were Vikings Looking for Love?" Topic
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 Editor in Chief Bill   | 25 Nov 2016 6:27 p.m. PST |
Now, researchers suggest a new twist on an ancient explanation: Scandinavian practices that led powerful men to monopolize women also might have led to significant pools of unwed men. Many of these single men, looking for marriage, might have gone on raids to gain status, wealth and captives, and thus go on to secure brides and concubines of their own… link |
| Winston Smith | 25 Nov 2016 6:30 p.m. PST |
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| Hafen von Schlockenberg | 25 Nov 2016 6:40 p.m. PST |
Especially monasteries. . . |
| Streitax | 25 Nov 2016 7:04 p.m. PST |
Hey, don't criticize alternative lifestyles. Especially if it involves guys with swords who know how to use them, so to speak. |
| thorr666 | 25 Nov 2016 7:44 p.m. PST |
They thought they were nunneries! |
| Sundance | 25 Nov 2016 7:52 p.m. PST |
I think there might be something to the idea that they were looking for a certain amount of status and wealth in order to attract a wife. A landowner/farmer was typically married but his half-dozen or so farmhands were not. Makes a certain amount of sense. The article title makes it sound like they were out to steal women, which is certainly a possibility (they were known to sell them to Arabs as slave-girls), but not where the article seems to be going. |
| rmaker | 25 Nov 2016 8:04 p.m. PST |
As to why they became raiders rather than traders – compare the profit margins. |
| SonofThor | 25 Nov 2016 8:09 p.m. PST |
They went where the money was, church. |
| uglyfatbloke | 28 Nov 2016 12:52 p.m. PST |
Well, they were a bloodhound gangs of a sort so they were looking for 'Love; the kind you clean up with a mop and bucket…' |
| 1ngram | 28 Nov 2016 3:11 p.m. PST |
Given that the Viking who refused to kill children was laughed at by his peers – I suspect not. |
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