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What am I missing here? What's the symbolism?
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)And others glommed on. Ill look into it
LizBeth
(9,952 posts)soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Snip
The far right has a long history of adopting Nordic imagery, taken as many of its members are with the fiction of a marauding all-white ethnostate terrorizing Europe. It conveys white-nationalist sentiments of the proper origins of white people, says Katalin Medvedev, a fashion scholar at the University of Georgia. Their perceived entitlement, and false claims to the ownership and leadership of the U.S. nation. (It should also be noted that this reactionary fantasy is entirely ahistorical. Vikings were a multicultural people, and they never wore those famous spiked helmets. In fact, a modern Germanic pagan group, the Troth, published a statement condemning those like the QAnon Shaman for sparking violence.)
More theories here
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2021/01/why-capitol-rioters-wore-animal-pelts/617639/
crickets
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Layzeebeaver
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(4,878 posts)LakeArenal
(28,817 posts)Lars39
(26,109 posts)Dread Pirate Roberts
(1,896 posts)Bayard
(22,063 posts)He said when all this mess was finished last Wed., a friend called him from Australia. "Have you been watching the news there?" "No, it's 2:00 in the morning here." "Your Capitol has been taken over by Vikings! Are you somewhere safe." "I think so." "Well, if you're not, we'll send a boat for you."
Celerity
(43,349 posts)We've been lied to.
As the above video shows, popular imagery of Vikings is filled with lots of horned helmets. It's everywhere from football mascots (like the Minnesota Vikings) to far too many New Yorker cartoons. The only problem is that those horned helmets are a complete myth.
Roberta Frank wrote the seminal paper on the subject, "The Invention of the Viking Horned Helmet" (you can find a Scribd copy here). That work not only confirms the historical consensus that Vikings never had horned helmets it also explains how the mythical headdress landed on Viking heads.
The main culprit? Costume designer Carl Emil Doepler, who included horned helmets in his gorgeous costume designs for the 1876 performance of Wagner's classic Norse saga, Der Ring des Nibelungen. The gorgeous designs are available here, and it's easy to see why they quickly became iconic. The opera was so influential that Vikings with horned helmets became a new standard despite the fact that they were mythical.
EarthFirst
(2,900 posts)You do the math...
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Europes culture The only culture they want in this country is from Western Europe