What Punishment Was Like in Viking Culture

The Vikings were especially big fans of torture and punishment. They were also fans of raping and pillaging, so I guess their enthusiasm for torture shouldn’t come as too big of a surprise. In particular, there was one punishment in Viking Culture that was the most brutal in written history, Vikings were known to use one of the most bloody and brutal methods of torture ever devised – the blood eagle. This is just a glimpse into what punishment was like in Viking Culture.

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