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(For extra effect, try listening to this while reading this page.) The more "metal" cousins of the Pirate, native to Dark Age Europe, who spend a lot of their time cruising in their dragon-headed longships, pillaging and burning any hapless peasant villages that happen to get in their way. Originally a West European stereotype of Norse people (since the few pirates and mercenaries were remembered more than the many peaceful merchants, or the majority of Norsemen who remained in Scandinavia), contemporary Scandinavians have embraced the Vikings; see Mexicans Love Speedy Gonzales.

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  • Horny Vikings
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  • (For extra effect, try listening to this while reading this page.) The more "metal" cousins of the Pirate, native to Dark Age Europe, who spend a lot of their time cruising in their dragon-headed longships, pillaging and burning any hapless peasant villages that happen to get in their way. Originally a West European stereotype of Norse people (since the few pirates and mercenaries were remembered more than the many peaceful merchants, or the majority of Norsemen who remained in Scandinavia), contemporary Scandinavians have embraced the Vikings; see Mexicans Love Speedy Gonzales.
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  • (For extra effect, try listening to this while reading this page.) The more "metal" cousins of the Pirate, native to Dark Age Europe, who spend a lot of their time cruising in their dragon-headed longships, pillaging and burning any hapless peasant villages that happen to get in their way. Vikings in fiction tend to incorporate elements of The Berserker (fitting, as the medieval Scandinavians were the progenitors of this fighting style and remain its most iconic users) and Proud Warrior Race Guy, and always wear those spiffy horned helmets. Vikings are always quite hairy, with long beards and hair (with Braids of Barbarism) flying in the ocean breeze. Being Nordic, most of them are blonde or red-headed. The trope name is a pun on Vikings' reputation for raping and pillaging, and the horned helmets that they never actually wore except for ceremonial occasions. (The myth that they wore them at all times started with the Romans; they sometimes suggested winged helmets as well, which were actually worn by the Celts, also only for religious ceremonies.) Originally a West European stereotype of Norse people (since the few pirates and mercenaries were remembered more than the many peaceful merchants, or the majority of Norsemen who remained in Scandinavia), contemporary Scandinavians have embraced the Vikings; see Mexicans Love Speedy Gonzales. Examples of Horny Vikings include:
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