Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-9041013-20170203191929/@comment-9041013-20170203220634

Jake888 wrote: 'Kay, thanks for clarifying. They are pretty much vikings though, right. The targets of their attacks fits, they're weapons and the fact that they mostly traveled by sea on longboats. Their savagery and execution methods fit by the book. Sorry if I'm on the ass about the viking thing, but I actually felt stupidly pround for thinking I figured it out, though.

Anyway, the story will be good once you polish it out a lot. Thing is most popular theory today states they were first ruled by vikings hence the similarity. Culturally they were similar and in certain cases even more "savage" (apparently early russian leaders would be burned on a boat with their wife and a "favorite" maid as opposed to vikings whod be just burned with their possessions) the longboats are made to navigate rivers - both groups used it.