massive Danish human sacrifice

[borbor_chan]

A friend here who is a Semiticist jokes that when the Romans had plumbing and the Egyptians had pyramids, the Danes had mounds of mud and rocks. Apparently they also offed their own soldiers, lol

http://www.slate.com/blogs/trending/2012/08/15/massive_sacrifice_of_ancient_warrior_army_discovered_at_danish_alken_enge_bog.html

But seriously, the relatively late arrival of the vikings on the stage of global civilization might explain in part the enormous pride the Skandinavians take in their current economic and aesthetic supremacy.