Comments by "Jorge O" (@jorgeo4483) on "Knowledgia"
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@jiminverness By country, as a vulgar term, I am referring to a State entity, formerly the Kingdom. All of them after the Roman Empire (this is the old or classic world right?) All you have comment is false in strict terms.
Suevi Kindom (with the agreement with Honorio Emperor from 411-585, they even had its own coins, then conquered by the also Spanish Visigotic Kindom, formerly the Spanish Kindom, so many time before the frankish Kindom I'm afraid.
You will not try to compare a meeting of colleagues in a forest like the Icelandic "parliament" that all we know as annecdotic between barbarians with a feudal parliament, with lords with functions and knowledge, who represented regions and citizens, written rules, written laws, etc. like any current parliament, 1188.
Denmark was not a continued State, they belonged to Sweden. Even Norway was a kindom before.
All the actual kings of Europe are descendantas of the Spanish Catholic Kings. Charles III too.
Spain is a political, historic and cultural entity from the Visigotic Kindom to now.
Also it was also by far the largest, longest and most influential civilizing empire in the world.
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@magnusk4352 To begin with, what you call Vikings, which you don't even know who they were, were actually Normans, because the Goths invaded half of Sweden, the same as Spain and Italy, and the other half and Norway were invaded by the Normans, who were a people of Romance beech, from northern France. The Vikings won some small battles as mercenaries of other armies, for example in Ireland against England or in Scotland and on and on. I am Spanish, from Galicia, a region with Celtic roots, Suevi (a Germanic group) and Visigothic/Germanic too. The Vikings were here several times, even in my city, the same as in Seville, Lisbon, etc. while It was still Arab and they always lost, they tried to rob the Cathedral of Santiago and lost against a bishop and against the king of the Kingdom of León, their ships were all burned, the Arabs did the same, none of them survived. The only Viking victories were against isolated monasteries and their fame spread so that certain feudal lords were granted lands, castles, titles, to protect a threat that was nothing more than a band of ragtag men.
Of course they never set foot in America, the remains seen there are from Basque whalers.
They did not write anything, Irish monks did it centuries later from places where they had never seen anything. The mania that you all have with Vikings is queer.
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