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‘Danish Viking blood is boiling.’ Danes boycott US goods with fervor as others in Europe do so too (apnews.com)

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[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 30 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Do you think that someone invoking the highly mythologized spectre of their millennium-dead predecessors amounts to anything but an embarassing admission that they themselves have accomplished little of note?

[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The danish national anthem summarized: In ancient times? We wuz Vikings'n shit. Today? Well our trees are really pretty.

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 12 points 8 months ago

They really are very pretty, I'd like to see the forests