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This is actually remarkably true. For instance, the Norse/Vikings are universally regarded by contemporary, predominantly Christian, sources as a violent, evil, and barbaric force of soulless pagans. Which is of course not true, in many ways the Norse cultures were more socially progressive, forward thinking, and advanced than their early medieval counterparts. But since they didn’t write down a whole lot themselves, the Christians, who got their asses handed to them on a regular basis by Vikings, got to write the history about them instead. And they were quite negative about the Norsemen for a number of reasons. For instance, in one English Christian source, which reads like it was written by an incel, there is the argument that the English must slay the Norse(Danes) quickly, because they wash several times a week, use oils in their hair that smells good, and actually bathe more than once per year, thus seducing all the English women. This, to me, reeks of a group of losers sneakily trying to justify their hate and rage towards a different culture who are, by the standards of the age, somewhat less shitty than the sneaky losers.

My favourite example of winners not writing history is the Sea Peoples of the Bronze Age Collapse. Some randos rolled up and absolutely rocked Egypt’s shit and yet their identity is a ridiculously massive mystery

Me in 2022 when the pandemic hasn’t ended yet because people don’t know how to act right and I’ve been holed up in my house for three years acquiring a new flavor of crazy, going to open the door for the guy in the hazmat suit that’s come to deliver my groceries