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hydrarchy, a general label for the revolutionary fulcrum of dangerously radical social ideas represented by the Atlantic maritime community. I wish there was a citation here because this is another writer who based a lot of his theory on argument that people who worked on boats were a dangerous democratic element that threatened the aristocratic landed group, I thought, without enough evidence.

As with so much of the early history of the North, these developments had their roots in the gradual decline of the Western Roman Empire, and in the changes that rolled over Scandinavian societies as the imperial inst. to the south contracted or failed.

A part of the Viking soul, was a female spirit--always female, even for a man. How marvelous, and how utterly subversive of the male-focused stereotype, that every single Viking man literally had a spirit-woman inside him.