I look at myself in the mirror, and see the Viking possibilities... the tall, lean, naturaly muscular body... a fine specimen for a man of Fifty... No. I do not have six pack abs, but I am strong , and healthy...
A giant to most, but I cannot see myself plundering, and living the Viking ways... not in this life... but I can imagine, and put myself in the past when that was all I knew, and I can see how I would have honored it as only a Viking would because that would have been what I knew...
I picture my own ancestors, and their nobility, and acknowledge their darker points... and I am glad I do not live in a world of Viking ways... Then I watch the news, and I realize, the world has not changed much... and leaders are very much like Vikings until this day.... bugger, but more cowardly weaponry seems to be the only distance...
It can, make the old Viking ways, seem more honorable... more realistic... and perhaps more sane than today's...