I found some hints towards what you're talking about in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Copenhagen_(1807)#Aftermath but "viking" doesn't appear on either page, I must not understand Danish Romanticism
it's why you can't understand history from reading wikipedia alone (not trying to slight you here)
the Vikingen poem, by Geijer, is what popularized the Vikings. written in 1811.
Sweden lost to Finland in 1809.
Denmark and Norway were bombed into bankrupcy by Britain, in 1807-13.
All of Scandinavia was getting simultaneously owned at a common point in time. There was a lot of anger, Geijer recognized this and wrote the poem, and it was memed into reality
hey, you're actually right but there's another thing. Sweden lost the Finnish war in 1809. The poem that popularized a lot of viking stuff (Vikingen) was written by Geijer in 1811.
I didn't know about the Danish/Norwegian loss to the British at the same time though.
So I think it's safe to say that all of Scandinavis suffered heavy losses, got buttblasted, and memed cope into reality across national boundaries. Later the meme was picked up by British/US whites, who adopted it as a symbol of pan-white superiority.
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I found some hints towards what you're talking about in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Copenhagen_(1807)#Aftermath but "viking" doesn't appear on either page, I must not understand Danish Romanticism
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it's why you can't understand history from reading wikipedia alone (not trying to slight you here)
the Vikingen poem, by Geijer, is what popularized the Vikings. written in 1811.
Sweden lost to Finland in 1809.
Denmark and Norway were bombed into bankrupcy by Britain, in 1807-13.
All of Scandinavia was getting simultaneously owned at a common point in time. There was a lot of anger, Geijer recognized this and wrote the poem, and it was memed into reality
YEAH THAT'S RIGHT
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hey, you're actually right but there's another thing. Sweden lost the Finnish war in 1809. The poem that popularized a lot of viking stuff (Vikingen) was written by Geijer in 1811.
I didn't know about the Danish/Norwegian loss to the British at the same time though.
So I think it's safe to say that all of Scandinavis suffered heavy losses, got buttblasted, and memed cope into reality across national boundaries. Later the meme was picked up by British/US whites, who adopted it as a symbol of pan-white superiority.