Viking sagas on combat and curiosity
The Romans saw the Vikings are barbarians and were eager to make them Christian, for they beleived their truth was the universal truth. They were not interested in learning from 'lesser' people. For Romans, the others had to be subjugated. They were resources and rivals, to be enslaved, and brought into the Roman fold. In time, the Vikings lands of Scandinavia would give rise to the Dutch who would change the world forever by inventing the stock market, a financial revolution that provided vast amounts of credit to the newly emerging industrial economy.