Vikings Essay
When one asked people about what they know about the Vikings, people usually answered back with several myths about Vikings. The images that usually comes up are filthy, unkempt, bearded men who love to destroys and pillages through the lands. Men and women who had blond hair, muscular, and tall; including they wore furry boots, furry armor, horn helmets, and love to drink out of their enemies’ skull. However, after being in a semester in Pagans, Barbarians, and Vikings; I have learned that is not the truth about Vikings. They were actually farmers who were successful traders whose beliefs came to understand economics, a religious concept, brought art and literacy to and from the place that they went. They value some virtues that people today
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People has been introduced magic as a “miraculously contravenes the ‘laws’ that govern matter and energy. This is, after all, precisely what magic is portrayed as being in popular cultures, such as in the Harry Potter series,” Magic could also be known a supernatural force or just an illusion. However magic can be defined as being able to transform all the aspirations of the person (relationships, closeness, constraints, and fetters) so that they will be able will be able to fulfill one’s own desire. In order to do that one has to work with the other’s existing ambition and urge someone to believe or to actually do something in harmony with the someone’s own will. They have to be able to show the belief or process in a way that the person truly feels as if the their will is in tune with their harmony, therefore the satisfaction of the enchanter and the enchanted has work with the harmony. If one want magic to truly work in their own favor, they would have to be able to “satisfies the desires of all involved in the working.” Now what does this description have to do with the Norses. Magic to them was normal part in their everyday lives. The enchanter has the basic understanding that having the cosmo work for them is a lot easier than having the cosmo work against them. Norse magic emphasize more on knowledge, they have this word kunna which translates to “to know, to understand, to know by heart’ as well as ‘ to have insight in
People has been introduced magic as a “miraculously contravenes the ‘laws’ that govern matter and energy. This is, after all, precisely what magic is portrayed as being in popular cultures, such as in the Harry Potter series,” Magic could also be known a supernatural force or just an illusion. However magic can be defined as being able to transform all the aspirations of the person (relationships, closeness, constraints, and fetters) so that they will be able will be able to fulfill one’s own desire. In order to do that one has to work with the other’s existing ambition and urge someone to believe or to actually do something in harmony with the someone’s own will. They have to be able to show the belief or process in a way that the person truly feels as if the their will is in tune with their harmony, therefore the satisfaction of the enchanter and the enchanted has work with the harmony. If one want magic to truly work in their own favor, they would have to be able to “satisfies the desires of all involved in the working.” Now what does this description have to do with the Norses. Magic to them was normal part in their everyday lives. The enchanter has the basic understanding that having the cosmo work for them is a lot easier than having the cosmo work against them. Norse magic emphasize more on knowledge, they have this word kunna which translates to “to know, to understand, to know by heart’ as well as ‘ to have insight in