I really like, Norsemen, a Norwegian television series, that is on Netflix in Australia. Norwegians actually have a really good sense of humour. This series is really funny! I can't wait for the second series to be made available for international audiences.
Anything to do with Vikings is also popular. The History Channel, has the hugely successful, Vikings series, with Australian actor, Travis Fimmel, playing legendary viking, Ragnar Lothbrok - notice when Hollywood want a masculine hero they always get an Australian actor - Chris Hemsworth, Hugh Jackman, etc. Its called the 'Hemsworth effect.'
"Large-muscled, hairy-chested Australian actors are swooping in to steal all the proper roles, as American men languish in an, 'asexual or unisex area of sensitive young men.' actor Michael Douglas stated.
https://www.google.no/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jul/14/the-hemsworth-effect-are-australias-masculine-actors-for-export-only
Australians are the last unreconstructed masculine men, much to the lament of feminists everywhere I guess (I'm going to get some hate for this!). We definitely would be enemy number one in Scandinavia, just saying, which is ironic when you consider that Scandinavian men used to be Vikings. Norsemen,the TV series, take a funny postmodern look at this issue.
Scandinavian music is famous of course, no need to mention ABBA (I'm still a little in love with Agnetha), but Finnish heavy metal is arguably the best in that genre. Wardruna, a Norwegian music group, do a lot of the soundtrack for Vikings (see above).
Just feel the emotion in Wardruna's, Helvegen, about a viking death song (see above).
I wonder if the popularity of Vikings, and Game of Thrones, Knights, and anything Medieval, and also in gaming, is about a crisis of masculinity in the West. Boys, and men, fantasying about when they were valued for being warriors by society, and respected for manly virtues - what many feminists would describe now as, 'toxic masculinity.'
Boys are really struggling in the current Western education system with only 40% of males graduating from university. Its an interesting social experiment that is going on all over the West, particularly here in Scandinavia.
After studying history I can say, that historically matriarchies or societies with men who can't fight or won't fight, are normally conquered by men who come from patriarchies (modern DNA analysis shows this when the Y male chromosome of a tribe will disappear and replaced by another tribes Y chromosome DNA - read more, in Before the Dawn). Europe used to be matriarchal, before it was conquered by the Indo-Aryans, patriarchal warrior pastoralists from the East, who replaced the mother goddess type gods with masculine gods like Zeus, Odin, and Thor (who ironically Chris Hemsworth plays). Perhaps as Europe becomes feminised or even matriarchal if radical feminists get there way, then they will be replaced again by another patriarchy.
Perhaps, by the type of men from patriarchal societies that are now coming into Europe from the South and East.
Further information:
Nicholas Wade, Before the Dawn.
Martin Van Creveld, The Rise and Decline of the West
Martin Van Creveld. Pussycats: Why the Rest Keeps Beating the Rest, and What Can be Done about It
Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
