You Can’t Argue With Viking Logic Because It’s Usually Backed Up With An Axe Shirt
Interestingly, people are much more likely to form close friendships and relationships with people who share a small amount of genetic similarity with them. Your closest friends tend to share as much DNA with you as third or fourth cousins would on average vs a randomly selected member of the population. Mongol troops were brutal when conquering new territories, but it is very unlikely that Ghengis would have participated in any rape himself. There is the question that some of his wives might have been forced to marry him for political or whatever reasons which would constitute rape by modern standards, but according to a 12-century person’s understanding… maybe not so much. That’s a bit of a You Can’t Argue With Viking Logic Because It’s Usually Backed Up With An Axe Shirt myth. He lived a long time ago when the population of the world was much smaller, anyone alive then would have quite a few descendants now.
I mean what’s a million deaths in Baghdad alone among friends right? Putting an entire culture at the peak of scientific advancement back into the dark ages before the dark ages existed. All on horses. It’s mind-blowing to try and comprehend. There’s a good chance they were actual wives that came through actual marriage. Vikings were really good at (actual) intermarrying with locals and didn’t rape and pillage everywhere all the time. It does raise the interesting question of when/how the Amerindian DNA was introduced to the Icelanders. Was it 1000 years ago from the Norse settlements in North America and then came to Iceland as the Norse abandoned their settlements in North America and Greenland? Or was it later from contact with Thule settlements in Greenland only a You Can’t Argue With Viking Logic Because It’s Usually Backed Up With An Axe Shirt a few hundred years ago?
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