Vinland Saga - Ch. 209 - Thousand Year Voyage Part 18

[MangaDex]

 

[lordsavor]

Alright, so now its morally correct to kill all of the barbaric natives! Sooner or later they will all drink tea and consume opium

 

[benshapiro]

Congratulations! R.I.P Ivar's hand 🎉🎉🎉🥳🥳🥳

 

[DeOneChester]

I hope those dumbasses live to realize bringing and using those weapons is exactly why they got fucked up. Don't let them die feeling justified.

 

[Hootanic]

Ivar must have been on raids against people that didn't put up effective resistance in the past... it's like he never considered that he "might not win this one" when he started down this path. Now same for the Lnu war-party. They have no idea what's going to hit them if Hilde and Thorfin decide to go all out.

 

[NLight]

Those guys are not coming out of this alive, so far Thorfinn has been the aggressor and the neutral party, the afflicted, but he has never been the leader of such a large amount of people that are on the defensive. Wonder where this goes.

 

[zersetsu]

Did Ivar really think he was gonna beat 12 guys at once?

He should've just played dead. The loss of his arm is his fault imo

 

[Blaster746]

The native Americans are both hunters and warriors... Forgetting that fact is deadly.
Plus, multiple tribes means that each group of people won't have the same way of thinking.
=> That was already the case back on their original continent, why would it be any different in this new land?

 

[Levankua]

As all things. The truth is often complex. Was it wrong to have weapons to defend themselves? Did that invite disaster or was Ivar simply not strong enough to enforce his beliefs? Either way this has ended very poorly for the nords.

 

[xyzzy]

Ivar sowing war: hehe shit, this rules

Ivar reaping war: aw shit, this sucks

 

[DesertStorm]

Most tribes survive by killing other tribes. Most of them aren't peaceful, they're just doing what they think is best for the survival of their tribe.

 

[Kanami-chan]

snowboi vs FORESTCHAD

 

[endless]

The sky is so pretty

 

[quiproquo]

Big wepons for big boys.

 

[foon]

Damn, the same sword that cut off the hand that started this cycle of violence has come around and cut Ivar's hand off. Both right hands as well

 

[Gamzeet]

Most tribes survive by killing other tribes. Most of them aren't peaceful, they're just doing what they think is best for the survival of their tribe.

Most tribes survive by hunting animals and making use of their entire bodies, as well as foraging for additional resources and knapping rocks to make tools and weapons.

 

[Sarkhan]

He wanted war.
He got war.

Mission achieved Ivar, well done.

 

[JaffaOrange]

In many ways, this was inevitable even if a sword wasn't brought and Thorfinn knows this. That's why he so quickly folded when the tribes made it clear that the settlers were no longer welcome. Ultimately, Vinland wasn't the land of peace that he hoped for. Even if he didn't come as a warmongering conqueror, his arrival brought change that displaced the natives.

 

[Theozilla]

Ivar should have played Fire Emblem, he would have remembered the weapon triangle and that axes are weak to swords.

But seriously I wonder if Ivar is guaranteed dead from this or not? How quickly can someone bleed out from a clean below-the-elbow chopped off arm like that?

In many ways, this was inevitable even if a sword wasn't brought and Thorfinn knows this. That's why he so quickly folded when the tribes made it clear that the settlers were no longer welcome. Ultimately, Vinland wasn't the land of peace that he hoped for. Even if he didn't come as a warmongering conqueror, his arrival brought change that displaced the natives.

The sword definitely made things easier to go to shit and escalated stuff though. It's the same with the Cold War and nuclear weapons, yeah there would be conflict between people regardless, but introducing something to the playing field that is solely dedicated to killing other people and making it easier to kill and injure other people does have a meaningful effect on the conflict and issues and interactions.

 

[EarlofMillenium]

He wanted war.
He got war.

Mission achieved Ivar, well done.

He actually didn't want war. There was a whole scene about that.

You know what, I'll just remind people. See chapter 200. Styrk, Helmet Bro, did a lot of manipulating to stoke fears and to let Ivar take some of Thorfinn's authority but that was done without Ivar's knowledge and he pretty directly rebukes it once he finds out.