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Option 1: Vikings raid and pillage, lose gold in the raid and pillaging and also in the rebuilding
Option 2: Pay the vikings a large amount of gold, but still less than they would have raided and pillaged for, to not raid and pillage. Don't have to rebuild
Don't forget option 2 allows for the newly settled Vikings to defend against raiding Vikings. Don't have to pay army.
Vikings start speaking French, end up in southern Italy.
Sacre-a bleu
Then they settled and started fucking eachother and consequentially mixed cultures. Humanity!
Maybe that's more "The UK in a NUTshell." than France, idk.
Well lets just say the Vikings were doing the fucking. Without consent.
Well lets just say the Vikings were doing the fucking. Without consent.
Not necessarily. From a hostile source, the English chronicler John of Wallingford:
“The Danes made themselves too acceptable to English women by their elegant manners and their care of their person. They combed their hair every day, bathed every Saturday, and even changed their garments often. They set off their persons by many such frivolous devices. In this manner, they laid siege to the virtue of the married women, and persuaded the daughters, even of the nobles to be their concubines.”
It's safer but less fun.
The French invented the protection racket?