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From the burning of the yggdrasil tree in 777 to the year 1065 at the age of 50 harald hardrada known whimsically as the “last viking” would set the ball in motion that would lead to the end of the viking age

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Unlike much of europe at the time most norse communities had maintained a democratic aspect in their society through their use of what they called an “althing” which was essentially gathering of a local democratic body of all the free men of that region where they discussed local legislation

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If we assume we all know this heritage or history and that the basic scandinavian mythology odin thor and ragnarok is in fact a germanic mythology vastly shared with the other german people and was richard wagner’s basic inspiration we can neglect recalling it to mind though recollecting such facts should be basic

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This germanic nature of the scandinavian people or even peoples is central in the whole history of europe and it probably explains why the scandinavians never tried to raid or conquer german territory

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They looked east into slavic territory and they look west into celtic and frankish territory which must have appeared at the time as some continuation of the roman empire in western europe and the gaulish celtic previous phase

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These slaves are just servants that have no civil rights and it would have been interesting to insist on the direct government they had each community convening their male members into some kind of general assembly that decided of all common issues

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They invented direct democracy though some might see it as a preromanempire survival that also existed among celtic people and was killed along with the egg the roman legions crushed and what will become parliament in england a few centuries later

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They replaced raiding with trading