Cultural tradition, I think - Howard Pyle, you know. Treasure Island. It becomes self-sustaining. Plus, culture again: The Vikings were very bad news for a way long time, and nobody could wax too romantic about savages who were so good at their job that they distorted the development of Western Civilization. It's like glorifying the Black Death or the mass murders of Stalin's Russia. No no.
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Cultural tradition, I think - Howard Pyle, you know. Treasure Island. It becomes self-sustaining. Plus, culture again: The Vikings were very bad news for a way long time, and nobody could wax too romantic about savages who were so good at their job that they distorted the development of Western Civilization. It's like glorifying the Black Death or the mass murders of Stalin's Russia. No no.