(01-08-2018, 08:16 AM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: Well. That chapter quote for A Thing of Vikings goes a long way toward explaining why all these passages written in the 16th century sound like scholarly works from the 21st century.It's been strongly implied for a while that Hiccup and the dragons are going to accelerate social and technological development to the point that things end up a few centuries ahead of schedule compared to the real world.
I don't believe the world has gone mad, because I don't believe it was ever sane.