>>796536Err... I'm the one you originally responded to.
Not the one you're responding to now (I tend
to try to format my posts like newscolumns)
What preceded our modern notion of "history",
if not lore?
There are significant differences between the
modern discipline of history and a largely-oral
transmission of lore, but the attempt to preserve
(and above all, to present) a version of the past
remains.
That is the essence of history: to present what
(allegedly) happened in the past.
"Vikings" tries to do this, among other things.
"Alone" does not.
Cheers. :^)
