Sooo we have necroed a thread from years ago that basically points out that despite what holywood and others have done, the norse ppl who went raiding from the pretty inhospitable lands in scand-fjords to softer lands in Brit-isles and northern side of EU mainland, were, infact, human beings, and like all human beings they liked to be:
comfy, attractive to opposite sex, decent at fighting when they had to
and they strove for:
land to live and grow food on, social security, as few hardships as possible.
Good, good, turns out those humans were humans after all. Great work. Investigative prowess.