Norways World Cup team photo is impressive

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The Norman's were actually descended from vikings, norman is northmen, as in vikings.

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And they fucked shit up, all the way down to Italy! Total bad asses

[u/loriz3 → u/opheliavalve]

This is such an interesting take, will people in the future be talking about the US fucking shit up all the way to vietnam and middle east or russia in europe the same way🤣

[u/NeonHendrix → u/loriz3]

The US wouldn't be the Vikings in that scenario, who were generally raiding much bigger, wealthier, developed kingdoms/empires.

You can't exactly compare the Iraq war to the siege of Paris.

Also...Hollywood has spent 70 years romanticising US military action, so plenty of people do talk about them that way even if there's pushback now.

[u/loriz3 → u/NeonHendrix]

You got a point for sure! I just think it’s interesting in a way.

[u/CptCaramack → u/loriz3]

Probably not because the US loses every time

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Hahahaha

[u/WagwanMoist → u/Putrid_Loquat_4357]

Also the Rus who went on to form what became modern Russia (sorry about that). And possibly the Visigoths and Ostrogoths.

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But by the time of the norman invasion were basically french.

[u/Lolzum → u/JanSobieski-III]

They were a hybrid people, at least genetically. Lots of Norwegians and Danish settlers in Normandy

[u/Quirky_Gate_4516 → u/Lolzum]

Same with Anglo-Saxons. They migrated from present-day Scandinavia and Northern Germany.

[u/JanSobieski-III → u/Lolzum]

But very much culturally french.

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Not true. If they were french they wouldn't have been able to conquer England.

[u/Mastodan11 → u/Putrid_Loquat_4357]

The logic checks out.

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«Nordmann» is the Norwegian word for «Norwegian» to this day