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9 Apr 2026 Lex Fridman Podcast #495 – Vikings, Ragnar, Berserkers, Valhalla & the Warriors of the Viking Age
“I mean, even Alcuin, I think he writes a little later on that the dead were left as dung in the streets.”
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…… especially the north. So your conception of the world is shattered by, one, the brutality that can come, two, that the sea can bring a threat, and three, that you don’t give a damn about any of the lines that we as a society, as a Christian society, have established. That’s exactly right. I mean, even Alcuin, I think he writes a little later on that the dead were left as dung in the streets. So he’s describing dead monks as literal dung in the streets. And, you know, who would do this to men of God? Inhuman monsters. So who were they, the Vikings, coming from the north? How did they think of the violence that they were doing?…
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