The map above is a tongue-in-cheek look at how the Vikings may have viewed the rest of Europe in 1000 AD. It has everything from crazy relatives to the sea of the sweaty people.
The map is the creation of Yanko Tsvetkov and appears in Atlas of Prejudice 2: Chasing Horizons (also see Atlas of Prejudice: Mapping Stereotypes, Vol. 1)
We’ve previously featured Yanko’s Culinary Horrors of Europe and felt this is another deserving humorous European map, this time from the Vikings point of view.
If you’re interested in learning more about the real Vikings we recommend the following books:
Also be sure to check out Vikings the TV series.
Have any comments about the Vikings? Leave them in the comments section below:
dontshoot_me says
eh …. did they not have an opinion on the Irish? They had several settlements there in 1000AD
Daiyu Hurst says
Unless it can be shown that the Vikings had a word that corresponded to “retarded” (in which case its unfortunate use would be at least historically accurate), could we come up with a different pejorative the next time, so we don’t slam an entire group of people who struggle along with the rest of us to make sense of he world we find ourselves in?
Alec Leamas says
Mongoloid. You’re welcome.
THOR says
All of the “west” is of Mongoloid origin. Vikings know their stuff.