Vikings and their way of life.

Church at city of Vassal, Finland

Kimmo Huosionmaa

Vikings were very tough and good soldiers, who were robbed half of Europe. The equipment of the Viking soldier was not so good, that they would not think of the gods, but they were very good weapon users, and that was the reason, why they had so terrible reputation. The Vikings lived in the northern area far away from other Europeans, and that was the reason, why those men were so good targets for prosecutions. And in some cases, the jewelry of monastery have been stolen monks by themselves.


But of course, Vikings robbed many cities and villages. Their methodology was always same. When those Vikings first time came, they offered trade products for the people of the city, and if they seemed like wealthy persons, they would come back with weapons. But Vikings worked also security missions for other kings, and they were known as good weapon handlers. That kind of specialists was very wanted for a military trainer, and Vikings were hired even by the emperor of Byzanthe.


Also, they worked as mercenaries, who attacked against other states by gift. Those mercenaries were used same missions as "Dirlewanger"-units were used in Nazi Germany 1940's. The Vikings might sometimes hire even by the Catholic church and their mission was to terrorize some area, and then the church took their knights in place, and they were told to the people, that by changing their religion to Christianity, the knights would protect their religious brothers and sisters. But sometimes the anthropologists have given a question about the weapon handling skills of those "men from the north". Why were those persons personal fighting skills so good? This was a question, what was interested many military leaders in the world.


In 1930's and -40's SS-Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler and German "Ahnenerbe" send many historians and anthropologists to Sweden, Norway, and Finland to find out, what made Vikings so ultimate soldiers. If that was because of the food, the German military would begin to eat the same food immediately. One explanation for the ultimate courage of those fighters was, of course, the mushroom, what is known as "the toadstool". This mushroom causes hallucinations, that Vikings were able to fight, without the feeling of pain. But this was only one explanation for their fighting success. The courage is the little bit different than skills for weapon handling. And this thing is what fascinated those persons.


If they would get own Viking-soldiers, they could have ultimate military personnel under their command. When we are talking about the muscles of Viking, I must say that they are not very weak. And if we think about the video, what is made for the song "Herr Mannelig", we must say that the woman must have very strong hands, if she wants to strangle the Viking soldier. Or she might use drugs, what was probably given by some other person little bit earlier, for stunning the soldier. But this is only the comment for that video, what is seen on YouTube. The Christianity ended the Viking era even in the northern land, but their reputation still lives in many stories and myths, like the song "Herr Mannelig".  Link to that video is under the text.

Sources

Writings of Vikings

"Herr Mannelig"


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cy44ocuoWhE


https://sites.google.com/view/vikingngsandtheirwayoflife/etusivu

Writing about suicides before execution or imprisonment.

Cyanide capsule of Himmler
(Picture 1)

Kimmo Huosionmaa

Today we saw it happen. One man who was in the court about the war crimes drink the poison and became a martyr. His name was Slobodan Praljak.  This is the thing, what those people who were responsible for the security of that court, should be prepared. The case is some kind of what happened in the Nurnberg trial. Some of the people who were sentenced to death were got the suicide ampules in the cells and they committed suicide in their cells. Those people were Hermann Goering and Heinrich Himmler. The last one was not judged in Nurnberg because he killed himself before court same kind of capsule, what Goering used before the execution.


When we are talking about those suicides, then we must concern that the poison was in the hollow tooth, and then those men could avoid the hangman. But there were, of course, the rumors that those men got the "zombie poison" or tetrodotoxin, and some of their friends in the allied lines helped them to escape from the hangman. But there is another theory, about those suicides. This theory was that Himmler and Goering could not stand the raise to the hang rope, and some men wanted to be sure, that Goering and Himmler will ever speak nobody about their secrets. Or did Goering try to get sympathy from the court of Nurnberg by attempting the suicide by weakened poison capsule, but somebody changed the suicide pill.


The same question as in Goering's case will be asked in this Croatian general case will always be asked the question, "did that man know, that he took real poison"? Or did somebody change the capsule? If somebody actually changed those capsules or dose, would that man try to get sympathy from the court? If that is true, would that suicide committed for the reason, for getting sympathy from the court, what convicted that man for 20 years imprisonment. Or why this man was able to take that poison in the courtroom? This is the question what will ask many times after this case.

Sources

Photo 1 https://ww2gravestone.com/people/himmler-heinrich-luitpold/

http://gatesofvienna.net/2017/11/bosnian-croat-general-commits-suicide-after-final-icty-verdict/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_trials

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_G%C3%B6ring