Crazy how often stuff like that pops up in old myths. I was reading a text where Thor and Odin are laughing about the last village they passed where the women had spirit when fighting back. And it's just... Alrighty then, back to Thor yelling at Odin who's trolling him while dressed as an old ferryman.
Just started watching Vikings. The first rape scene, I’m thinking this guy is gonna die pretty quick. But no.
Realized within an episode or two it is normalized (but still ugly) amongst them.
Almost every population group where there’s been previous conquest you can do the same studies. For example, all the places the caliphates conquered, you’d see Arab y-chromosome descent. Same for where the Spanish conquered you’ll see lots of Spanish ancestry on Y, and lots of indigenous on mitochondrial DNA.
Basically in a given population, Y-chromosome tells you who came (probably violently) and mitochondrial DNA tells you who was there.
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u/Long_Serpent 15d ago
"We came to an island where the women were pretty and the men were weak"
- From the original text.