Ragnar Lothbrok: The Viking Legend
Gone Medieval
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Ragnar's Story of the Viking Threat
What can we learn about how the rest of Europe was viewing the Viking threat? I guess particularly from the point of view of Christians who are witnessing pagans having so much success. Do we see anything in the way that they talk about Ragnar or the various Ragnars, of how they're trying to rationalize the Viking success? Usually the chroniclers are writing in a kind of monastic context. And so the simplest way of ascribing or of explaining the success of Ragnar and his sons is saying it's the devil.
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