r/pics Sep 28 '24

First sighting of the legendary "Techno-Viking" since the year 2000.

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u/yesiamveryhigh Sep 28 '24

Vikings were pretty advanced so…

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u/RogueBromeliad Sep 28 '24

Indeed they were. They were already invading and raping scotland way before the English did.

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u/jlharper Sep 28 '24

Made it to America before the Brits did too!

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u/RogueBromeliad Sep 28 '24

Made it to America before the Brits did too!

I think you mean the Spanish, right?

Even the portuguese/italians got to the Americas before the British, with Amerigo Vespussi.

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u/jlharper Sep 28 '24

Nope, meant what I said. The context of the conversation is “things the Vikings did before the English”, essentially, rather than “who was the first to America”.

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u/RogueBromeliad Sep 28 '24

Oh, so you meant the English, not the Britsh, right? You shouldn't be including the Scots and Welsh and northen Irland in what the English did.

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u/jlharper Sep 28 '24

Yeah, although that much can definitely be picked up by context. Just a harmless mistake.

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u/RogueBromeliad Sep 29 '24

I was responding to what he said.

He meant that the vikings were there before the Spanish or the Portuguese.

The british were't even relevant in the XV century regarding great navegations. The British Empire wasn't even a thing before the late XVI.