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What the Alt-Right Gets Wrong About the Vikings

WEAPONIZING HISTORY

Viking Age Scandinavians were immigrants who traded with the Muslim world and embraced gender fluidity—everything the alt-right despises.

Erika Harlitz-Kern
Erika Harlitz-Kern
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