I thought it was because the basques were hunting in iceland, but there actually seems to have been a mutually beneficial agreement for that. Apparently the basques were declared outlaws and hunted down because one of them stole some dried fish? Psychos.
Xenophobic sentiment is common, but I feel like “We found people shipwrecked on our shore, the only moral thing left to do is torture them to death” is maybe a bit abnormal in intensity.
I thought it was because the basques were hunting in iceland, but there actually seems to have been a mutually beneficial agreement for that. Apparently the basques were declared outlaws and hunted down because one of them stole some dried fish? Psychos.
People, of all regions and cultures, can be utterly bizarre.
This just seems like xenophobia to me, which is too common to call it “bizarre” …
Xenophobic sentiment is common, but I feel like “We found people shipwrecked on our shore, the only moral thing left to do is torture them to death” is maybe a bit abnormal in intensity.