I grew up in Minnesota and have literally never heard anyone ever say this about me or any other person of Scandinavian origin.

You've never heard of your NFL football team?

Sport team names have nothing to do with declaring ancestry.

This is not the zinger you think it is, my dude.

Tampa Bay Buccaneers? Las Vegas Raiders?

Do you think the LA Rams have that name to claim ancestry?

You're absolutely correct.

"They are named after the Vikings of medieval Scandinavia, reflecting the prominent Scandinavian American culture of Minnesota."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Vikings

I've heard it, but only in a tongue-in-cheek context, at least the way I've always interpreted it.

pretty common on twitter, esp these days where there is strong anglo-saxon white nationalism crowd

they do romanticize their ancient past as one of conquest and domination over others.

btw, even without the viking aspect, norse law was pretty strange in that it allowed murder for a fine. there is definitely a savage aspect to white tradition as there is to any modern culture, but there is a lot of whitewashing thats done to present anglo saxons as racially superior, highly civilized culture.

> pretty common on twitter

All sorts of strange things are common on twitter that are completely absent in real life. It shouldn't be used for any measure of reality, especially if you're judging the people of a continent.

White ethno-nationalism is not exactly irrelevant to current U.S. news & politics.

and that is thanks to amplifying fringe and/or fake junk from twitter!

Restorative justice isn't that unusual in the world. Blood money has roots all over the place. Paying victims or their family/clan/tribe for deaths or injury is not unusual especially if the perpetrator is of higher status than the victim.

...so a common meme for bots

It's common among usian nazis of the David Lane strain, and on Facebook you can find quite a lot of "viking" groups mainly populated by usian dinguses, some of whom claim some scandinavian ancestor or other.

Also funny things in black metal like American bands using german names, and yes often overlaps with white power stuff too. Norwegian or Swedish I can understand, a bit, as that was a key wave of black metal, but think what if a band that loved brazilian bm usee Portugese names (I do remember a band using spanish even though its members weren't latino but it does sound odd doesn't it?)

And the funnier thing is, among all thr cultural roots of white or other people, these bm bands it's always German if you know what I mean.

Athros of quebecois black metal fame as a member of Forteresse also thought that was weird, he dropped out of Blutskrieg due to their overt nazism and perhaps even their use of english, to instead make a bit of a career out of french separatism.

I had no idea Athros had a similar thought, its hilarious and fun to see others noticed it too.

Ugh, consider yourself lucky then. Can easily meet a new one each week if your social circle isn't too selective. Usually someones cousin that tags along. At least they can't survive long without the rest of the tribe, so they don't become regulars.