Awakening of Vikings
I wanted to point out where our Nordic races become awakened, to not forget some local traditions; as Americans speak English, grow long and know some about the mythology, the cultural ties with people from north combine with their geographic latitude.
We know Vikings to have a tradition of work and war, where the emphazis of personal responsibility for the results is very high, compared to Christians. For me, it's a form of Buddhism, and I generally think that in long wars of history, the ones who won, often had a higher culture and civilization, bringing good values to others. Person by person, I cannot judge that - I do this based on a culture. More educated and moral cultures - they often won; and if not, their cultures persisted, coming out in other places, just like christianity after the mass murder of many of it's followers, suddenly became strong. In heaven, indeed, you meet the challenges you are ready to go through. I don't easily break morally when I lose, and less and less I could see the mistakes in those, who would attack me. It's my problem to not fulfill my karma, even if I cannot be attacked based on that - for another person, to say that it's my problem, is not true; if they want to follow the same tradition, it's not my problem to lose mine, but rather their problem to lose theirs. Viking mythology does not give you easy arguments to conquer your enemy.
In some part of their history, Vikings were told to be killed. We do not have people complaining about this, or calling it a genocide, but rather I cannot think further than having them rightfully lost the war. Now there are people, who have the blood of probably related people, but who did not call themselves "winners", who live on Viking areas and connect well with their mythology, which is often shared with people from England, or Celts and others, feeling the same in considerable degree - we can typically understand each other's culture to depth, for example the good work morales and motives. Vikings are calm, neutral people, who really believe in legal system and do not easily create maffias and other obstacles to endanger their life values.
Saaremaa, often called simply "Island" in Estonian, so that there leave "Island people", is one part of Estonia, which was really strongly part of the Viking tradition. You can find it on the Viking map. They do not have a strong tie to something to be called a "religion", to be prieched and strategically followed, but rather they form parts of others, like atheists and christians. Still, going to the Island, where my mother's family lived for many generations (my father is from Russian nobility, giving me other religions as well, believing in Christian wars of good and evil and in Buddhism and Sanskrit like eastern people of Russia - he lives two generations in Estonia and speaks more or less like native). On Island, Saaremaa, I want to point out the practically felt religion: it's a deep belief in hard work, strength and resistence. It's people are generally strong, hard-working men, who look really calm and do not like to discuss the good and evil. They are very often enlightened in a way of Buddhist, who lives deep in the nature until they feel the seasons and natural cycles, or a christian saints, who started to value the life - so the modern Viking religion, it does not want to argue and to have a moral standpoint, but it grows men, who are calm, strong, relaxed and with very good aura. Part of the sea tradition makes rum and cigarettes part of the religion, with quality rum bringing some sea ambient for the people. They complain very little. I can agree the village people sometimes beat the city men and there are tradition of young men having a fight each year between two villages - those, to be said, are not my traditions, but I'm also not particularly angry about the men, who want to feel their muscles; rather, those are traditions, which happen somehow by free will apart from city life.