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Rhys Darby as Hamish (the night clerk at the Farhampton Inn) in How I Met Your Mother S9E7
#this is how stede will blame izzy's ghost for everything wrong with their inn whenever guests complain (adding OP tags cause they're crucial)
Just a reminder that on the web version of Tumblr you can turn off infinite scrolling in your dashboard settings.
And you should.
(also turn off "Best Stuff First" if you're sensible)
SHE WENT THERE
“Open, thirsty, I need to check in with my primary firsty”
black and asian vikings 100% definitely existed (also, saami vikings)
you know how far you can get into eurasia and africa by sailing up rivers from the baltic and mediterranean seas? pretty fucking far, and that’s what vikings liked to do to trade
then, you know, people are people, so love happens, business happens, and so ppl get married and take spouses back home to the frozen hellscape that is scandinavia (upon which i’m guessing the horrorstruck new spouses went “WHAT THE FUCK??? FUCKING GIVE ME YOUR JACKET???????”)
and sometimes vikings bought thralls and brought them home as well, and i mean, when your indentured service is up after however many years and you’re a free person again, maaaaaaaaaaaaybe it’s a bit hard to get all the way home across the continent, so you make the best out of the situation and you probably get married and raise a gaggle kids
so yeah
viking kingdoms/communities were not uniformly pure white aryan fantasy paradises, so pls stop using my cultural history and ethnic background to excuse your racist discomfort with black ppl playing heimdall and valkyrie
Also we KNOW they got to Asia and Africa.
Why?
Because Asians, Africans, and Vikings TOLD US SO.
Also, we know there was significant mercantile trade between Scandinavia and parts of Pakistan, Afghanistan, Northern India, Kashmir, North and Eastern Africa because there is evidence in burial sites.
Check that out: the goods Vikings and Scandinavians were getting from their trade with the rest of the world was so important they buried themselves with it, as part of their treasure hordes.
We KNOW this.
There’s a reason you can still see many of the trade routes from the ancient world etched into the very earth.
Plus, we know that some Scandinavian cultures that participated in Viking raids had established minority communities of ethnically Mongolian folks living among them during the periods when such raids were common, and it’s difficult to credit that none of them would have signed on.
More about the Islamic World and Vikings (some Vikings converted to Islam! sort of sketchy site tho)
… is that enough? :)
I love this post, learning the history of this topic is fascinating.
@datvikingtho vikings for you
the Norse were fucking hardcore
“Toil and Trouble”
america please import this concept
they are not “androgynous girls”
they are nonbinary. they self-identify as genderless. their fans refer to them as meishaonian, or “handsome youths.”
the band is called FFC-Acrush, by the way.
the Quartz article is full of really terrible transphobia and wrong usage of gendered language.
