We need a total and complete shutdown of all Ivy League anthropology departments until we can figure out what the hell is going on.
https://twitter.com/Magnus_Fiskesjo/status/1764725547827859605
Interesting that Viking battle-axes used to rape and pillage defenceless seaside villages are fetishised by some Scandanavians/Europeans/Americans today as "rad" and "totally awesome as fuck" -- that's truly sick.
And, it is probably part of the broader psychological denial of the gruesome history of bloody violence, on which modern Western capitalist hegemony is founded. 
How can anyone look at any ornamental weapon and assume it's used for anything other than looking nice? The only ceremonial weapons that I know about that were used as killing implements were sometimes frou-frou fancy boys would have elaborately engraved flintlock pistols.
Nick Cage used the fuck out of his gold-plated pistols in Face/Off, checkmate anthropologists