Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-9601450-20130722000933/@comment-4057437-20130722071635

Faedinout wrote: they've portrayed the "Nords" as superstitious, dull, dim-witted, rude and crude when in actual history they were the greatest explorers of any age and were in North America centuries before anyone else and gave birth to what is now Scandanavia.

And yes, I do have Norse heritage, though my current character is Breton. Lets have a little history lesson, shall we?

The word vandal comes directly from Europe's experience with the Vandals, a group of Norsemen who wreaked havoc throughout much of the western Mediterranean in the "dark ages".

Peace-loving peoples throughout costal Europe dreaded the Norsemen, who were as savage and rapacious as they come. The "dark ages" were made much darker by them.

As we have posted before, we also have Norse blood, and we know some of our families' history. Not all of it was pretty.