I belive there is even some viking grafitti to be found in the hagia sophia moske in istanbul, proberly made by some viking mercenary.
And if you visit museums here you can see the guys traded and raided far and wide in the world.
I think the "Danes" back then was a more outgoing ppl, it is funny cuz to me it seem like ppl have allways tried to get the hell out of here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cimbri The Cimbri from my part of Denmark was just some of them.
Regarding the British you can to this day still see out influence in the way it is governed, they now have the house of commons and the house of lords.
Back then we had the "byting" that was a local place where all from a town ( by ) could meet and discuss things ( Ting meaning meetingplace )
Above the local "Byting" was 2 more levels of "ting" the top one only beeing made up of representatives from the different parts of the land.
The top ting was only for the big things like going to war.
Vikings dident have prisons, most things was settled with fines, or i guess mano a mano.
Even today you can allso see the connection here as our govening pody / our parlement is called "Folketinget" and that use to be called "Landstinget"
Today i cant see we are anything special, at least not in a posetive way.
Sure we are worle leaders in alternative energy, but really any one can copy us and do the same if the will to do it is there.
We are suposedly the most happy ppl in the world, why i dont know all ppl whine at least as much as i do.
I do think if we dident turn onto the wrong path like we did decades ago we could still be somthing really special, but now our problems is no longer bad kings, now its bad politicians that is glued to ther chair in our parlement and they will only leave it for ther own kids when the time come.
And untill then they will do all they can to avoid the big questions and decisions, cuz they know if they make the "bad" decisions that everywhere need to be taken then the stupid voters will not vote for them again come next election.
The latter is why i think the only good ppl / party to vote for is those thats only in contention every 10 - 20 - 30 years, and sadly we have no such party here.
Politics ( and many other things in life ) is about getting things done, and thats both good and bad things.
But then voters is allso pretty stupid, when i was voting i allways felt stupid when i had put my X down on the paper, and during the following 4 years i allways feel cheated by the ppl i voted for.
And i dont like that feeling so i stopped voting, but every day i pray that there will come some one i can vote for again, and meanwhile i feel even more sad and stupid.
A really popular past time here is running around in fields with metal detectors, so much more fun here than say a young nation like the US.