Oemotsägliga nya bevis i DN: "Vikingarna var kosmopoliter"

Various studies of the Vikings by academic liberals, reject the idea that the Vikings used the ritualized method of torture an execution known as the blood eagle. The victim, always a member of a royal family, was bound face down, back exposed, and usually by means of a hand axe, his ribs were chopped from the vertebral column. Then his lungs were pulled out to make a form of “wings.”

The problem with the liberal argument is that it would discredit almost everything expressed in the sagas about the Vikings. Certainly, the Sagas are not historical records, but they are still some of the few sources of information available. Unless there was strong contrary evidence, we should provisionally accept the existence of practices such as the blood eagle, if it is consistent with the existing body of knowledge about the Vikings. The pre-Christian Vikings were not liberals, and would spit on the degenerate liberalism that dominates us today.

The four tribes who had been forced to pay tribute to the Varangians—Chuds, Slavs, Merians, and Krivichs—drove the Varangians back beyond the sea, refused to pay them further tribute, and set out to govern themselves. But there was no law among them, and tribe rose against tribe. Discord thus ensued among them, and they began to war one against the other. They said to themselves, "Let us seek a prince who may rule over us, and judge us according to custom". Thus they went overseas to the Varangians, to the Rus. These particular Varangians were known as Rus, just as some are called Swedes, and others Normans and Angles, and still others Gutes, for they were thus named. The Chuds, the Slavs, the Krivichs and the Veps then said to the Rus, "Our land is great and rich, but there is no order in it. Come reign as princes, rule over us". Three brothers, with their kinfolk, were selected. They brought with them all the Rus and migrated.