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A man stumbles into the scene and grabs the woman. The eponymous “Techno Viking”, a muscular bare-chested man so-named because he is wearing a Mjölnir pendant and has a blond braid and a beard, enters the scene by grabbing that man by the arms and the camera follows, showing the confrontation. The Techno Viking pushes the man back in the ...
Dubgaill and Finngaill, or Dubgenti and Finngenti, are Middle Irish terms used to denote different rival groups of Vikings in Ireland and Britain.Literally, Dub-/Finngaill is translated as "dark and fair foreigners" [1] or "black and white foreigners", [2] and similarly, Dub-/Finngenti as "dark/black" and "fair/white heathens".
The Rällinge statuette is a seated figure in bronze, discovered in Södermanland, Sweden in 1904 and dated to the Viking Age.The seven-centimetre-high figure, who wears a conical headdress, clasps his pointed beard and has an erect penis, has often been assumed to be the god Freyr.
In his despair Charles the Bald tried to use another Viking chief, Veland, whose men operated in the Somme region, to attack the Seine Vikings at Oissel. However, this scheme backfired since the two Viking armies made a deal and united their forces. [12] The Norsemen were encamped by the lower Seine in 861–862, but then split again.
The origins of the character—“a very old-fashioned and, to many, offensive caricature of a black man,” according to BBC’s History Extra—aren’t clear: some say he’s a Moorish servant ...
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Rollo (Norman: Rou, Rolloun; Old Norse: Hrólfr; French: Rollon; died 933), also known with his epithet, Rollo "the Walker", [4] was a Viking who, as Count of Rouen, became the first ruler of Normandy, a region in today's northern France.