The Viking age exposed for what it was: a genocide we refuse to remember. Six million souls were trafficked, tortured, and slaughtered by Vikings. Yet history romanticizes them.
“The Viking age is remembered for sagas. It should be remembered for slaughter.” “ Six million souls —yet where are the memorials?” “To forget is to condone. To romanticize is to desecrate.” “The Viking economy was human trafficking at an industrial scale.” “Selective memory is itself a form of injustice.” History is full of silences, and those silences are never neutral. They are cultivated, curated, and convenient. We are told—again and again—of some atrocities, drilled into remembering their numbers and their moral weight, while others are softened, romanticized, or erased. The Viking age is the perfect example. For generations, Scandinavia’s raiders have been rebranded as rugged adventurers, daring explorers, or misunderstood pagans. Their ships are glorified in museums, their sagas translated as literature, their horned helmets sold in tourist shops. But where is the reckoning with their brutality? Where is the lament for the six millions of souls trafficked, mutil...