. >> during a recent virtual event, hudson institute senior fellow arthur herman discussed how the vikings and their scandinavian descendants shaped history. here's a portion of that discussion. >> it's really the women who become the most charismatic and the most powerful, the most effective rulers all through the history of sand knave ya. -- scandinavia. what's amazing too is although the viking age and the post-viking age produced some great rulers,

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