Vikings preyed upon other countries, raping, killing, pillaging, & enslaving people.
Should this be overlooked or should the be vilified for it, as we do with the Confederacy?
I have Viking ancestry,I have Viking hand to prove it,I will not vilify them but I do admire some of their achievements,Vikings aka pirates or sea kings included the Geats who are prominent in Beowulf.
The Confederacy for example conjures up visions of the KKK,I’m unaware of vikings raping and pillaging these days but we know racism still exists for them good ok southern boys.
Interestingly I watched “Mississippi burning” a few days ago,great movie,I saw it when it first screened too,the leader of the KKK in a speech
“We do not
accept Jews, because they rejecy Christ! And their control over the International Banking Cartels are at the root of what we call Communism today. We do not
accept Papists, because they bow to a Roman dictator! We do not
accept Turks, Mongrels, Tartars, Orientals nor Negroes because we are
here to protect Anglo-Saxon Democracy, and the American way!”
Here’s another quote:
“- Mayor Tilman: Do you like baseball, do you, Anderson?
- Anderson: Yeah, I do. You know, it's the only time when a black man can wave a stick at a white man and not start a riot.”
So the Confederate legacy lives on while the Viking way has melted into history,imo there’s no comparison between the two.