I have a dream that one day, all the people of Scandinavian decent in Minnesota reach deep within there massive selves, and claim their Viking heritage. I yearn for the day when I turn on the news and hear about a bunch of tall blond guys from St. Paul got into a big kayak-looking boat and have started doing border raids on Canada. It is a dream of mine that I sincerely hope will be fulfilled, and it’s starting to look good. Everyone knows that Vikings are cool. Mead is becoming more popular. Runes are becoming more common, easier to get a hold of, slowing spreading through the metaphysical community. Odin and Thor are really cool gods, and I’m sure they would be very happy with any sudden burst in popularity.
It would be a wonderful sight, imagine: strapping blond men with accents, sacking Canadian liquor stores and kidnapping wenches from Michigan. “Ve’re from Minnesota.” They’d say, pulling their massive, politically incorrect wolf fur cloaks around them. “Give us yer vemen.” The sacking and pillage of Detroit would make headlines.
I am greatly looking forward to large helmets with horns on them, enormous log halls, bards doing public readings of Beowulf, great big beards, cool tattoos, battle axes and war hammers, and the general return of Viking culture to the United States. It would sure as hell be a lot more interesting to watch the American Vikings re-emerge than another reality based TV show.
If only there was something I could do to encourage this…
