Vikings

A Viking Longship, A thirty meter long can o rape back in the day

Vikings were Scandinavian people from the 8th to 11th century, a period in which societies based in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, making use of their long-ships set forth to trade and colonize areas including Northern France, the British Isles, Russia, Iceland, Greenland and even reached North America (though the settlements they set up there did not last). They also made a habit of bathing and washing their hands frequently, unlike the heavy cavalry jerks that were taking over Europe. They only stopped when France, of all countries, rolling a nat 20 on Diplomacy by offering Normandy. Once they were allied, they started going soft, so to counteract that conquered Saxony and helped form England.

Vikings are the closest that the real world has ever had to dorfs, but they should not be confused as such. While they had a penchant for axes and could use anything, including body parts and broken furniture, as a weapon, Vikings were just unspeakably awesome humans (they couldn't handle as much booze as a dorf, though only just). Vikings that rode Dragons even more so. Vikings are not to be confused with barbarians either (though they are the main inspiration for that trope, and were described as this by the many Southern nations they routinely pillaged and assraped), despite any combination with the former resulting in awesome. Vikings are also notable for pledging themselves to Chaos and becoming werewolf supersoldiers.

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