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Yes, because real Vikings were very serious about respecting human rights.
To be fair, Vikings didn't necessarily want to exterminate ethnic groups or purge so-called unclean peoples, they simply targeted whomever had booty they could despoil.
So, essentially the real life pirates.
...do you think pirates weren't real? Hell, they're real now. The reason piracy isn't much more widespread isn't because humanity has progressed, it's because the navies of NATO powers and others constantly patrol the oceans to protect their economies' bottom lines.