Why, What, How, When, Where, Who.Ask anything and find the answer.

Vikings-don’t you think the name itself sounds dangerous. It evokes fear in me whenever I read the word.

As per history, the Viking belong to Norse peopleswho are known as the best sea fareres and exploreres but later indulged in pirate activities. These Norsemen used their famed long ships to travel as far east as Constantinople and the Volga River in Russia, and as far west as Iceland, Greenland, and Newfoundland. This period of Viking expansion is known as the Viking Age, and forms a major part of Scandinavian history, with a minor, yet significant part in European history. Source-Wikipedia

The first Viking attack:

It happened in the year 817, on the coast of Ireland and the culprits attacked a monastery
wearing masks and iron helmets. They were dreadful. They slaughtered monks and nuns.

No, please, don’t tell your children about Vikings. The fear once instilled might take years to clean from the subconscious mind.

Thinkers were killed by kings when the civilization itself was not fully evolved and the majority of humans derived pleasure from doing harm to others. Those were the days when only the power of the muscle was considered supreme and those who did more barbaric act was feared by all and naturally bestowed respect on them.

Socrates was a thinking man. Personally, I never happen to read his doctrines but I read what is accused of.

“‘Socrates is an evil-doer, and a curious person, who searches into things under the earth and in heaven, and he makes the worse appear the better cause; and he teaches the aforesaid doctrines to others.”

Today I got to read the discussion between Socrates, Euthyphro and Meletus in “The Trial and Death of Socrates“

I like the language used in that book.