If you have been watching "Vikings" on TV

IF you haven't watched all the seasons of "Vikings" on the History Channel on TV don't read this because it will be a spoiler for you!

Floki is a friend of Ragnar but Ragna was killed in England. So, at a certain point Floki "The Boat Builder" sets sail and throws away his compass type of instrument and puts himself "In the hands of the Gods" and winds up almost dying st sea in a storm but is "Blown off Course?" to Iceland and sees this place as the "Place of the Gods" being Odin and Thor and all that sort of like the movie "Thor" and others.

Thinking in his almost dying and fasting without enough food in complete sensory deprivation from humans of any kind, Floki decides to go back to Kattegat (in Norway?) to get volunteers for an Icelandic "People of the Gods" colony.

My take on all this is my own of course. But, having spent time fasting in the wilderness at times and even going 4 days without water and food in 1983 in a vision quest I understand something about the states of mind and consciousness a relatively reasonable person would get to in this kind of circumstance. So, what Floki does is completely believable to me having had the experiences I have also had in life.

I'm very grateful I never had to kill anyone in life like Floki has. However, since I was born in the 20th century there are entirely different problems we all have had to deal with that don't resemble somewhere around the time of or before King Arthur and the knights of the round table (or around 700 maybe AD to 900 AD.

I have enjoyed this series a lot over the years. It's kind of violent but for me what is interesting is how well they depict and Odin Thor based culture. You kind of know somehow that this culture sprang somehow from the Zeus and Hera and Hercules culture of Greece. So, Odin somehow came from Zeus and instead of Hercules we have Thor, the son of Odin.

So, for me, the cultural depictions are what I'm attracted to rather than the bloodthirtyness of the show. It is the interrelationships of all the people especially when Christians and Odin Worshipers clash and try to understand each other.

Usually, the leaders are the only ones well fed enough and educated enough to pull this off because everyone else is having such extreme problems that this type of in depth thought may or may not happen. Or if it does people aren't free to speak about it because they aren't all free like we are here today in the U.S. and Europe.

But, to a large degree the freedoms we have now sprang from people like this in Scandanavia and England and Europe. So, watching this show helps one to understand how "Equality (between men and women) came about more than in other parts of the world between men and women. When you have "Shield Maidens" who fight in battle often alongside of the men you see how we got to the level of equality we often see in Nordic and European countries and also in places like the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand and others worldwide.