Do you think that vikings can make a come back.?

Question

Ok I have asked this question before but it may have been to long, now would a society like the Norse Vikings be able to do the same as what happend in medievil times. Dont compear this with modern gangs, modern pirates or terroist.
If you would like more info on what I have been thinking off then look at my other questions.

Ok not exactly like the norse vikings but on a close basis, they would only do what is needed of there clans.

Answer 1

I think you need to understand that "viking" was an activity that *some* (not all) of the Norse took part in. "Viking" comes from an Old Norse word meaning "detour" - it implies that is something one "turns aside" to do, not an everyday activity, and definately not the basis of a society - despite what continental Europeans who were raided by some of those who turned to viking may have thought.

The conditions that gave rise the viking age were also rather specific. The Medieval Warm Period had given Scandinavia decades of excellent harvests and raised the population. This created internal presures that were released by going viking. In addition, both the Islamic seizure of the old trade routes from Europe to the east in the early 8th century, and the destruction of the Frisian fleet by the Franks in the middle of the century created something of a power vacuum into which both the Norsemen and the Danes (who were both equally given to going viking) swept.

However, the motivating factor that gave rise to the Viking Age may have been Charlemagne. His conquest of much of Europe, his tendency to force his subjects to accept his ways of doing things at the point of the sword, and his taxes may have infuriated the Norsemen who then swept down to the Frankish lands, but didn't stop there - they equally harrased all Christian lands (since Charlemagne was a Christian) - England, Ireland, the Holy Roman Empire, etc. I don't think it's a coincidence the viking raids started while Charlemagne wore the Iron Crown.

I also think it's no coincidence that the Viking Age starts on the heels of the second wave of the Völkerwanderung, the Migration Period in Europe. In fact, it maybe the flip side of the same coin, the same restlessness.

Of course, not all of them were raiders. The Norse were also known as great explorers (establishing colonies in the Hebredies, Scotland, England, Ireland, France, around the Baltic, Russia, Iceland, Greenland and Vinland - although the latter two didn't last), traders (with great trading centers like Birka and controlling a lucrative trade route down the Volga River in Russia), and soldiers (the Norse made up the Vangarian Guard in Byzantium).

Comparison to gangs, pirates or terrorists would be superficial at best. The Norse were organized geographically under "Jarls", who owed allegiance only to their King, and even that was mitigated by the proto-democratic gathering called the "Althing"

Once the Medieval Warm Period cooled back into the Little Ice Age, once the "excess" population of Scandinavia had been resettled elsewhere (including Normandy in France, where their decendents became the Normans), once trade had been re-established with the east, and once Christianity had replaced the more hawkish deities of the Old Norse pantheon, the Viking Age came to an end.

So, no, I don't think Norse society of the Viking Age could make a "comeback". A society like that would require a complex mix of elements, many of which you have no control over (like the weather). Beyond that, experiements in social engineering (and that is what you are suggesting) rarely work. Just ask the Soviet Union ... oh wait, you can't. :)

Note: as for your suggestion to look at your other questions - I have and frankly all I can do is shake my head. Your description is so far from the reality of what the Norse were like that it boggles the mind.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Yes, ive got one at home!! lol