Viking Age Drabble

Dear Reader,

APH United Nations requested a drabble on the Viking Age and mentioned that he/she liked Norway. Hence, I am writing a monologue with Norway speaking of the Vikings.

I hope you all enjoy this and I give thanks to The Scheming Turtle for being my beta-reader in this and other drabbles.

PioneeringAuthor, the pioneer with a heart for people and a thousand stories to tell ~+~


The Viking Way of Life: A drabble with Norway concerning the Viking Age

All right, I know that vikings have a reputation for being scary pillagers who may possibly be insane or... something like that, but I would like to say that we actually had lives, and civilization. Unlike many Europeans, we actually believed in bathing, and bathed regularly. No, it's true, we did. Yes, we did sail around and attack people it's true, but not all the time-we mainly did that to get supplies. However, we did learn how to farm and settled down in the end. By the way, we had our laws and punishments like other civilizations, and we even had our own religious beliefs. In fact, you would probably recognize some of our gods and goddesses if you have a Gregorian calendar-ever heard of Thursday? That's Thor's day. Yes, the guy with the hammer was our god of thunder. Oh, and Friday is Freya's day-she was one of our goddesses. Okay, now do you understand that we actually had civilization? Good, because we were real people with real lives. Yes, we were a bit scary at times, but we did that to survive... that was our way of life... the viking way of life.