Vinland Saga - Vol. 17 Ch. 118 - The Hunter and the Hunted, Part 5

[MangaDex]

 

[natural-log]

This chapter hurts in several ways. I wonder how much scientific progress were crushed mercilessly for the pettiest reason throughout the history?

 

[qwyxivi]

The Library of Alexandria was purged and its scholars killed by *multiple* local rulers before it was ultimately destroyed. People are just terrible.

 

[CheerTheDead]

The Grand Library of Baghdad which housed the knowledge stretching from the far Western Europe to the Eastern Asia was burned down because the idiotic Caliph was so incompetent to protect it from the Mongols.

 

[Ryomi]

This hurts, not only due to the usual tragedy of the village being burned down, but also for the potential of progress turned into ashes for no good reason. That girl could have become the engineer of the century, but instead became a bitter hunter living in the woods.

 

[azzyrex]

When the Library of Alexandria was destroyed, we lost practically half of all of history in one go. It's ridiculous to think of how the world would be if they hadn't happened.

 

[Expiry]

Shame

 

[ooioi]

the art has got a lot better

 

[Kaitensatsuma]

Cute Hild is Cute.

 

[Kaitensatsuma]

When the Library of Alexandria was destroyed, we lost practically half of all of history in one go. It's ridiculous to think of how the world would be if they hadn't happened.

Imagine finding out that the Library of Alexandria wasn't actually burned in one go, and that instead if slowly degenerated over a century between intellectuals being chased out, lack of funding and upkeep and that one fire at a storage warehouse.

 

[F2ERRORR]

Bruh 💀, ppl listing the loss of knowledge throughout history meanwhile we getting the tragic backstory of the opponent rn

 

[pokefairy]

Imagine how many women WEREN'T given this freedom to use their abilities in our history. Instead forced to bear children till she died of it. Imagine how much more progress we could've made if they had been seen as people

 

[Panino]

Author went a bit too far with Hild's inventions but... that is a question that was asked many times before. How many geniuses had an early and unnatural death or never had the opportunity to make uses of their talents?