The best Scandinavian History books: Reddit reviews

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In this book, the author claims asking someone how happy they are means different things in different cultures. He says in Japan answering, "Yes, I am happy" is seen as bragging. In Scandinavia, however, being unhappy is something to be ashamed of, hence you will get only positive responses.

Scandinavian countries are also have some of the highest rates of anti-depressant use in the world.

Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings by Neil Price would be a good one. He is an accredited historian of Scandinavia where he is a professor in Sweden. What I would recommend is to read this and then to look at his notes/recommended reading section at the end of the book and branch off from there!

My favorite book on Runes:

https://www.amazon.com/Northern-Mysteries-Magick-Feminine-Powers/dp/1567180477/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=Northern+Mysteries&qid=1625759174&sr=8-3

Jeg har læst "Frozen Hell" inspireret en del af Ukraine krigen. Den er god.

https://www.amazon.com/Frozen-Hell-Russo-Finnish-Winter-1939-1940/dp/1565122496

Bogen er kendt som en af de bedste engelske fremstillinger af vinterkrigen mellem Finland og USSR. Parallelerne til Ukraine er slående. Sovjet overfalder en mindre nabo men tager på trods af en på papiret overlegenhed enorme tab og taber stor prestige.

Man ender med at vinde og påtvinge finnerne en hård fred, men Finland undgår at blive opslugt som balterne eller at blive trukket ind i Warsawa pagten som andre dele af østeuropa.

Den er værd at læse, det er nogle fuldkomne sindsyge slag som foregik i karelen i 1939. Nogle af slagene involverede tungere artilleribeskydning end under Verdun.

I thought Frozen Hell was good and was available for “free” on Kindle Unlimited.

I second / third Edred Thorssen but also ...gosh forgot his name and don't see it on Amazon. I'll try and find it, unless it was Donald Tyson.

Also I bought Lisa Peschel as a teen and loved it. Rune Magic

Hey there!

I highly recommend Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings by Neil Price and River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads by Cat Jarman. Both are absolutely fantastic reads, however, the second book focuses more on the expansion of Viking culture and trade into the far reaches of the world - from Ireland to Russia and the Middle East.

If you want good overall view of Winter War and tactics, this seems to be good book to start:

https://www.amazon.com/Frozen-Hell-Russo-Finnish-Winter-1939-1940/dp/1565122496#customerReviews

I have not read it, but reviews like it being kind of overall book telling about troops and tactical viewpoint.

Doesn't help your western bent much, but I loved SPQR and was just as challenged by https://www.amazon.com/Children-Ash-Elm-History-Vikings/dp/0465096980

> But leftism emerged in Christendom and only Christendom. It's possible this is a coincidence, and that there was something else about Christendom that produced leftist thought. But when the pervasiveness of early Christian polemics against wealth and privilege, and the regularly expressed desire for an inversion of the social hierarchy, is taken into account, I don't think so.

(2.2) Ideas do not explain events or ideas.

Also see this.

Check out r/norse , r/pagan , and r/heathen if you haven’t already to continue to build your personal community.

Odin also called to me a few months ago. Also a former Mormon — Not a requirement of course.

you may benefit from getting/making your own set of runes (I got my first set on Amazon ) and a guide book to interpret them

offerings in nature are good to practice. I have a low, flat stone in my yard that I’ll place things for creatures to enjoy. Sometimes I’ll also pour out a libation over it as an offering not to the animals, but a gratitude offering to Odin himself.

I try to connect with outdoors/nature. Linger at a campfire, enjoy the wind, run my fingers thru tree leaves as I pass by…

And, keep inviting Odin to guide you, ask him questions about stuff going on in your life, maybe even write down the answers in a specific notebook, and subtly pass the wisdom along when you meet someone who’s going thru something similar.

What the hell are you talking about? Why would I claim they were African? Do yourself a favor and properly read through those studies. They were diverse on a EUROPEAN level.

Why are you so triggered by the word 'diverse'? You're not a white supremacist are you?

If you are genuinely interested in Vikings and are not just trying to use them to validate your 'whiteness' I would suggest to read the following book: https://www.amazon.se/Viking-World-University-Uppsala-Sweden/dp/0415692628/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=the+viking+world+brink&qid=1630725111&sr=8-1

Yes, I definitely have Viking ancestors- just like you. It's estimated that about 10% of Swedish peoples background can be traced back to people of Viking culture. For British people I believe it was somewhere around 6%. Not that big of a difference.
It's statistically impossible for a North-Western European person not to have any Viking ancestor at all. Even Luxemburg. It's not like the people of Luxemburg have been locked inside their tiny little country for centuries. And Vikings have not just traveled the north sea- they sailed down the rivers as well. They've had trading towns all over Europe. Hedeby was the largest trading town- which is located in modern day Germany. But there were plenty of smaller trading ports and settlements. Some of them were along rivers in central Europe.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2688-8?proof=t

And his is a good book in case you're interested:

https://www.amazon.se/Viking-World-University-Uppsala-Sweden/dp/0415692628/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=the+viking+world+brink&qid=1630725111&sr=8-1

There's a book about the find: https://www.amazon.com/M%C3%A4stermyr-Find-Viking-Chest-Gotland/dp/0965075516

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If you sail the seven seas you can find it for plunder...

This is my favorite book on runes:

https://www.amazon.com/Northern-Mysteries-Magick-Feminine-Powers/dp/1567180477/ref=sr_1_3?crid=3BZKB6WIEYKA1&dchild=1&keywords=northern+mysteries+and+magic&qid=1627234112&sprefix=Northern+my%2Caps%2C216&sr=8-3

> Could you guys help me choose, give me pros and cons and every info you can?

Between Denmark and Sweden, please forgive me for heavy stereotyping, but:

• Danes can be quite conservative when it comes to minority issues. For example, they don't make it easy for Romanian Roma beggars to settle in Denmark, but they will not make it easy for you either.

• In comparison, Swedes think they have the obligation as the majority to adapt and to avoid offending minorities.

Read https://www.amazon.de/Almost-Nearly-Perfect-People-Scandinavian/dp/1250081564

> I won’t be interacting with them often if I’m Quebec.

you will in Montreal lmao. like others in this thread said: Montreal is full of Anglos, and "Anglicized" immigrants who hate the Quebecois. Why they stay, I don't know... I guess we're not that bad after all.

> Regardless, I doubt they have had to go through what you and I have; the beginnings of the destruction of our cultures.

They are, and they're applauding it. Trudeau called them the "first post-National state" and they love it. Toronto is like 70% visible minorities and they applaud it as a successful multicultural experiment. Vancouver is essentially a Chinese colony, and all they can say is that it makes houses too expensive.

> What I am fundamentally getting at is that you and I face the same issues against our cultures; would it not be better to stand united against the common issue than watch either one be destroyed first?

No, because Anglos have been literally trying to destroy Quebec for centuries. There is no incentive for us to ally with them.

> And trust me, WE didn’t choose any of this. We aren’t responsible for it at all. It’s the damned politicians and radical liberals that have caused this, not men and women like me.

I doubt this. You brought up WW2, but it is Britain who fought precisely against ethno-nationalism and anything that threatened their global financial hegemony. And they continue to do the same thing with the help of Americans. The Anglosphere has been responsible for a ridiculous amount of war and massacres, and it's the "money above all else" ideology that Britain pushed into the world that is used as the justification for mass immigration.

There is also plenty of psycho-evolutionary work that shows that the Anglos & Scandanavians are just like this - they don't comprehend the threat that 'outsiders' pose until it's too late.

This picture always makes me laugh because one of best friends looks exactly like this guy.

Anyway, my reading recently is very blackpilled, mostly Ivan Illich (Deschooling society), Uncle Ted and Ellul (The technological society) etc.

I'd recommend reading Kevin Macdonald's new book though, it discusses the evolutionary psychology of Europe and how it shapes our cultures and politics today. It turns out, not all of Europe is the same! Shocking right?

For something a bit less rigorous, but something to think about, there is Jack Donovan's "A more complete beast". If you haven't already read his earlier books "The way of men" and "Becoming a barbarian" I'd also read those.

Lastly, Mika Ma's Harassment Architecture was hilarious, like Mr. Post's shitposting but on crack.

I mostly read books so I can't provide you with any links.

For some perspective on this whole sex differences in other cultures as well (not so much to do with trans people, mind you), I'd recommend this book, funny enough written by an extremely well-known feminist. Although she's come under fire for being a TERF.

> It’s not easy finding an objective person today.

I don't agree, if you understand that 'objective' doesn't mean not choosing a political side. Some sides are based on informed opinions, and some aren't.

The first two links I gave you are informed opinions, there is no subjective bias. Bill Whittle, who has some great videos but isn't very active, and Professor Kevin MacDonald. And regarding the other post, if you want to read why both that article and Peterson are spreading false propaganda about Europe and White Nationalism: https://www.amazon.com/Individualism-Western-Liberal-Tradition-Evolutionary/dp/1089691483

I second this and also add that classical liberalism is (probably mostly) an emergent property of the Western European gene pool when under certain conditions of homogeneity and abundance. See "Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition." The gist is that since proto-Indo-Europeans the denizens of Europe have been more egalitarian and individualistic than pretty much any other group as figured by an examination of habitual practices, organizational structures, extent of monogamy and more. Just so you know where my biases are, I'm probably in agreement with that person claiming to be "alt right" on most things.

This is a really great book, and very entertaining also. I spent the first 22 years of my life in Norway and can tell you from experience that the "polls" used to show Scandinavia in general as a happy place are complete B.S.

https://www.amazon.com/Almost-Nearly-Perfect-People-Scandinavian/dp/1250081564

I'm sorry, but I don't have a specific source for this right now. My knowledge mainly comes from various books, lectures, youtube channels focused on history or articles from the Internet. But as far as literature is concerned, I can certainly recommend to you History of Vikings by Gwyn Jones, imo it's great starting point for learning more about vikings and Norsemen in general, as it covers wide range of topics in Norse culture, but doesn't get deep enough to confuse you.

Sweden is what I was thinking when I said that - speaking of which, this is a fun non-fiction read - completely off topic and nothing to do with TRP though..

https://www.amazon.com/Almost-Nearly-Perfect-People-Scandinavian/dp/1250081564/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1475761405&sr=1-1&keywords=the+almost+nearly+perfect+people

Dammit. So I always heard that Thursday is supposed to be linked back to Viking time as Thor's day. Is that wrong also? And ALL my reading I've done, it always pointed towards thurisaz being closely tied to Thor as in meaning strength and such. I have a book that has been my primary source of info on the runes, called "A Practical Guide to the Runes" by Lisa Peschel, that led me to believe that thurisaz would symbolize traits similar to what Thor embodies. So much so that I was going to take a pic of the page of the book at work today and post it here to prove I'm not crazy that I saw thurisaz linked to Thor. Dammit, everytime I think I have something figured out, I find out it may be completely wrong. Or my source of info is completely off, in which case how the hell am I supposed to know what a "good" source of info for this stuff is? I mean, hell, even a quick Google brings up this page that says thurisaz is a rune that can symbolize qualities of Thor. And besides, I guess it doesn't even have to be Thor himself, I'm just needing a rune that invokes defensive strength, aggression. Basically I'm going for a line that says "first, keep a clear head and plan your actions, then enact that plan with aggression and force, fearlessly. This will give you victory" So I guess it doesn't even have to mean Thor specifically, but I want a rune that embodies his strengths. All my research has pointed to thurisaz.

*The Penguin Atlas of Medieval History - Colin McEvedy 1961 for an overview. *2008, erudite conference output in Chapters 37 to 40 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Viking-World-Routledge-Worlds/dp/0415692628

For swedish readers theres Östersjöländerna och vikingatiden by J Jansson. IIRC penguin historical atlas of the vikings got some about Rus too.

I highly recommend anyone who's interested in the subject read A Frozen Hell.

What's really messed up is the Finns allying with Nazi Germany in WW2 (or The Continuation War to Finns) to regain the territory lost to the Soviets at the end of the Winter War.