The Viking Age Persona Test

Freeman

You scored 7% leadership, 36% spirituality, 25% violence and 22% intelligence!

FOLLOWER - SPIRITUAL - VIOLENT - EDUCATED You're a freeman: the average joe of Scandinavia. Most people nowadays in the West are a variant of freemen. Freemen were allowed to vote, to carry weapons, to fight in armies, to take up a trade and to rise in station if they distinguished themselves somehow. They were educated with at least basic skills regarding trades, fighting and religion. Being a freeman was a good life.

Navigator

You scored 25% leadership, 52% spirituality, 1% violence and 18% intelligence!

LEADER - SPIRITUAL - PEACEFUL - UNEDUCATED You are a navigator. It seems perhaps like a rather random profession out of many from the Viking Age to be a choice here, but navigators on longboats were one of the most highly valued men on board. Kings, lords, vikings, chieftains, wizards and priests trusted in these men, who knew just from looking up at the sky no matter the weather which way France was. Without the calm-headedness of the self-assured navigator, the Norse could never have discovered Iceland, Greenland and North America, and all history would have remembered them as would be the pillagers of pop culture. You will not be mentioned in the sagas, but rest assured, without you, there would BE no sagas.

My patrilineal line most likely goes back to a Norse man (according to my yDNA haplogroup).

Tradesman
You scored 7% leadership, 18% spirituality, 15% violence and 51% intelligence!

FOLLOWER - IMPIOUS - PEACEFUL - EDUCATED You're the tradesman. Much like any society, there are people who were intrinsic to general life, but who aren't particularly noticeable otherwise. These are folks like professional blacksmiths, shipbuilders, wagon-renters and shepherds who are experts in their profession, and make a good living off of it. They have no interest in much outside their job, and because of this make it their primary concern. But there aren't any sagas written about professional wagon-renters, are there?

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Skald

You scored 15% leadership, 28% spirituality, 10% violence and 40% intelligence!

FOLLOWER - SPIRITUAL - PEACEFUL - EDUCATED
Skalds are the Norse equivalent to bards, or possibly minstrels. They are the ones responsible for over half of what we now know about Scandinavian culture, royalty and mythology today, for they passed down their lore by word of mouth and song from generation to generation until Snorri Sturlusson of Iceland wrote down the Eddas in the 13th century. Skalds were gifted poets with quick tongues who flattered kings with their art, and occasionally the kings themselves would be known as skalds (or else!). Skalds were highly respected for their wit and intelligence, and in some folklore, they were said to know of events happening in far off lands as they were happening.
Your Analysis (Vertical line = Average)

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  You scored 15% on leadership, higher than 26% of your peers.
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  You scored 28% on spirituality, higher than 46% of your peers.
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  You scored 10% on violence, higher than 32% of your peers.
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  You scored 40% on intelligence, higher than 84% of your peers.

Me: 12% leadership, 37% spirituality, 9% violence and 39% intelligence

Skald

You scored 7% leadership, 52% spirituality, 1% violence and 33% intelligence!

FOLLOWER - SPIRITUAL - PEACEFUL - EDUCATED
Skalds are the Norse equivalent to bards, or possibly minstrels. They are the ones responsible for over half of what we now know about Scandinavian culture, royalty and mythology today, for they passed down their lore by word of mouth and song from generation to generation until Snorri Sturlusson of Iceland wrote down the Eddas in the 13th century. Skalds were gifted poets with quick tongues who flattered kings with their art, and occasionally the kings themselves would be known as skalds (or else!). Skalds were highly respected for their wit and intelligence, and in some folklore, they were said to know of events happening in far off lands as they were happening.

Gothi

You scored 31% leadership, 33% spirituality, 16% violence and 22% intelligence!

LEADER - SPIRITUAL - PEACEFUL - EDUCATED Gothar were the priesthood of heathen Scandinavia. You are the spiritual backbone of your society. Only you can intrepret the gods' will for your jarl. You are the first person people will come to any time they want to do anything from building a new shed to invading Denmark. May the gods smile upon you.

Gothi - 37 leadership 27 intelligence 22 spirituality - INFP

LEADER - SPIRITUAL - PEACEFUL - EDUCATED

Gothar were the priesthood of heathen Scandinavia. You are the spiritual backbone of your society.

Only you can intrepret the gods' will for your jarl. You are the first person people will come to.

May the gods smile upon you. Kool, I'm Joan-Of-Arc with a beard. Now where's my white horse?

Explorer
You scored 45% leadership, 25% spirituality, 31% violence and 9% intelligence!



LEADER - SPIRITUAL - VIOLENT - UNEDUCATED Possibly the most famous Norseman of all is Eirik the Red, who discovered Greenland. He was exiled from Norway for killing a man, so he decided to sail west until he found something, which just so happened to be Greenland. Trusting in the gods to keep you safe with your sword by your side to ward off any troublesome trolls and skraelings in new lands you discover, you are the glamourous viking explorer. You name will be remembered forever and the skalds will sing for centuries of your daring exploits in uncharted lands.

Gothi

You scored 21% leadership, 37% spirituality, 3% violence and 37% intelligence!

LEADER - SPIRITUAL - PEACEFUL - EDUCATED Gothar were the priesthood of heathen Scandinavia. You are the spiritual backbone of your society. Only you can intrepret the gods' will for your jarl. You are the first person people will come to any time they want to do anything from building a new shed to invading Denmark. May the gods smile upon you.

Freeman

You scored 13% leadership, 22% spirituality, 21% violence and 33% intelligence!

FOLLOWER - SPIRITUAL - VIOLENT - EDUCATED You're a freeman: the average joe of Scandinavia. Most people nowadays in the West are a variant of freemen. Freemen were allowed to vote, to carry weapons, to fight in armies, to take up a trade and to rise in station if they distinguished themselves somehow. They were educated with at least basic skills regarding trades, fighting and religion. Being a freeman was a good life.