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If some people in 2020 believe that A) vikings existed in 2012 and B) they would still invade places, then I'd say let them get confused, they'll be confused by anything.

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It was only last month that someone dressed up as a viking occupied the US capitol

My immediate thought was some sort of Viking LARP that went wrong

There's been a number of reconstructions of viking ships[1], and some of them like e.g. this one [2] have been sailed, so that would have been an amusing possibility.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_ship_replica

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draken_Harald_H%C3%A5rfagre

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