Comments on: Scandinavia Before the Vikings /scandinavia-before-the-vikings/ All Things Norway, In English Fri, 13 Jun 2025 19:10:58 +0000 hourly 1 By: Blanche Thomas /scandinavia-before-the-vikings/#comment-1021824 Sun, 08 Sep 2024 04:16:38 +0000 /?p=40400#comment-1021824 In reply to Gab the Troll.

Can you recommend a good book on this?

]]> By: Judith Paez /scandinavia-before-the-vikings/#comment-998971 Wed, 20 Apr 2022 14:52:14 +0000 /?p=40400#comment-998971 I am giving a talk about my trips to Norway tomorrow and I came across this article. I might add some of what I learned.

All my grandparents came from Norway but I was the first one to visit Norway and have visited family from both sides of the family.

Thank you for this gift of new knowledge.

J. Paez

]]> By: John Burroughs /scandinavia-before-the-vikings/#comment-996979 Sun, 06 Feb 2022 16:56:41 +0000 /?p=40400#comment-996979 My Ancestors started out in Finland and Northern Russia and then to Germany and then to France and then to England and then to Ireland and then to Canada were I’am now

]]> By: Rhonda Knapp /scandinavia-before-the-vikings/#comment-991409 Fri, 23 Apr 2021 22:44:10 +0000 /?p=40400#comment-991409 My great grandmother came from SW Sweden in 1894. My great grandfather’s parents came from an area near Stockholm in 1869. When I did my
DNA it shows that I am more Norwegian than Swedish. How did that happen?

]]> By: Cliff Lapp /scandinavia-before-the-vikings/#comment-991059 Tue, 30 Mar 2021 08:16:35 +0000 /?p=40400#comment-991059 I read, in various sources, about large groups of peoples from the Middle East migrating to Scandinavia prior to and around 8000 BC. Any information about this???

]]> By: Kris Lunde /scandinavia-before-the-vikings/#comment-990837 Tue, 16 Mar 2021 05:46:26 +0000 /?p=40400#comment-990837 In reply to Rolf Ringstrom.

There is no evidence of Vikings wearing helmets with horns, nor the norse before them. This is a popular culture myth from the last 150 years or so.

]]> By: Gab the Troll /scandinavia-before-the-vikings/#comment-990709 Thu, 11 Mar 2021 19:22:57 +0000 /?p=40400#comment-990709 Thank you for this account !
I just wonder why your article did not make a clear distinction between the “ur befolkning” aboriginal Scandinavians and the new comers indoEuropeans(invadors) ?
If we look a bit closer to the historical accounts and Nors methology; the time before the viking period was not pleasant and quiet at all.
The instalation of the indo-Europeans in Scandinavia was indeed a long hell nightmare for the aboroginals of Scandinavia. The people have been reduced to slavery, their languages vanished their cultures erased….and their Gods have become either evils or reduced as second classe Gods ( Luk, Freie etc).
A very quick analysis of the Nors methodology..
and you will understand that all the invaders Gods were great (Tor, …) and the aboriginals’ Gods recuded to second rang. The people that resisted in the mountains and fight against the indo-Europe invadors; they have been pictured as awful and called Trolls …. and still do.
Well it is a long story….

]]> By: Rolf Ringstrom /scandinavia-before-the-vikings/#comment-730439 Sun, 30 Aug 2020 21:19:14 +0000 /?p=40400#comment-730439 In reply to Jane.

I read somewhere recently that the horned helmets were a Hunnish thing, not Scandinavian.

]]> By: Olafr Alexandra Glucksberg /scandinavia-before-the-vikings/#comment-729148 Thu, 02 Jul 2020 08:31:11 +0000 /?p=40400#comment-729148 You bet. Fun fact one of the first kings and queens were tribal leaders too. Amazing article read.

]]> By: Jane /scandinavia-before-the-vikings/#comment-728655 Thu, 04 Jun 2020 03:22:06 +0000 /?p=40400#comment-728655 So I read that the people just before the Vikings wore the hats with horns. Any truth to that?

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