It's really incredible how much written material was created by medieval Icelanders. The entire Icelandic "Saga Corpus" contains 1.5 million words (around 5,000 pages).
This is a larger text corpus than what survives to us from ancient Egypt, and it was created by an island with a population of only several tens of thousands.
Because someone carrying his DNA literally probably did take an arrow for someone carrying your DNA in a battle long ago.
The blood bond you feel for your countrymen is not an illusion. You are distant family.
This brotherhood cannot be replaced by airy talk of "values".
Once you accept that European man is psychologically and spiritually inseparable from the mythic archetypes of his old traditions, you can begin to heal the internal schism within yourself - what it truly means to be grafted onto the vine.