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http://sciencenordic.com/what-vikings-really-looked

Thought I'd like to share this find here.

Five commonly held myths about what vikings looked like that are addressed:

    Vikings were dirty and unkempt
    Vikings wore horned helmets
    Vikings looked like we do today
    Vikings’ clothing style was admired throughout the world
    Vikings’ appearance was marked by battle wounds

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Re: What Vikings really looked like. (Spoiler: They looked like women)
« Reply #1 on: August 03, 2012, 03:34:49 pm »
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cant say ive ever heard any of those myths except the horned helmet which i thought everyone knew was false O.o
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Re: What Vikings really looked like. (Spoiler: They looked like women)
« Reply #2 on: September 17, 2012, 03:35:35 pm »
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Horned helmets would be the gayest thing to equip in battle.  :lol:
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Re: What Vikings really looked like. (Spoiler: They looked like women)
« Reply #3 on: September 17, 2012, 03:56:34 pm »
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and jesus was black

recently discovered paintings from 30 AD found in Jerusalem confirm it

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Re: What Vikings really looked like. (Spoiler: They looked like women)
« Reply #4 on: September 17, 2012, 07:38:53 pm »
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Anyone with half a brain could assume that vikings really didn't use horned helmets. (I hope)
Other than that, yeah, vikings and their hair/cleanliness was huge. Very similar to some Asian cultures. (Or if you want a movie thing, think the Dothraki in Asoif)

For the whole weapon thing, its generally the same as 99% of Europe. If it kills someone when you hit them with it many times, it is a weapon. Many peasant tools hurt on contact, so yeah it is generally a good read.

Everyone back then was shorter, so that isn't too crazy.

All in all, good read.

(13th warrior is a good movie to show some of this stuff. Based on Beowulf.)

Also, if you are interested in this kind of stuff, spend some time learning about random germanic "barbarians". You will find they aren't actually as savage as you might think.
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Re: What Vikings really looked like. (Spoiler: They looked like women)
« Reply #5 on: November 17, 2012, 02:36:05 am »
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Re: What Vikings really looked like. (Spoiler: They looked like women)
« Reply #6 on: November 20, 2012, 09:41:11 pm »
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some things that annoy me :D
1. viking inst a race or people it is a word to describe an activity :D (the Saxons went viking too)
2. Beowulf is not fucking viking (scandies) its an Anglo-Saxon poem :D altho it is set in Scandinavia

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Re: What Vikings really looked like. (Spoiler: They looked like women)
« Reply #7 on: November 21, 2012, 09:12:32 pm »
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”They had also conquered, or planned to conquer, all the country’s best cities and caused many hardships for the country’s original citizens, for they were – according to their country’s customs – in the habit of combing their hair every day, to bathe every Saturday, to change their clothes frequently and to draw attention to themselves by means of many such frivolous whims. In this way, they sieged the married women’s virtue and persuaded the daughters of even noble men to become their mistresses,” wrote Wallingford.

Not knowing jack shit about Vikings yet (gotta start my research paper soon, though), or knowing shit about the author of this source, other than that he was English (probably) and writing after the fact, I still think that the source is biased. Wallingford's painting a very deliberate picture of vikings as "frivolous" whimsical bundle of stickss that fucked the English's bitches.

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Re: What Vikings really looked like. (Spoiler: They looked like women)
« Reply #8 on: November 26, 2012, 12:08:59 am »
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Also viking used maille and cloth armor, not leather or any form of plate.

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Re: What Vikings really looked like. (Spoiler: They looked like women)
« Reply #9 on: November 26, 2012, 12:33:41 am »
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some things that annoy me :D
1. viking inst a race or people it is a word to describe an activity :D (the Saxons went viking too)
2. Beowulf is not fucking viking (scandies) its an Anglo-Saxon poem :D altho it is set in Scandinavia

arent you mixing that up with vandals?
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Re: What Vikings really looked like. (Spoiler: They looked like women)
« Reply #10 on: November 26, 2012, 07:31:54 am »
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I get my history knowledge from cRPG so this is how I thought they looked:

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Re: What Vikings really looked like. (Spoiler: They looked like women)
« Reply #11 on: November 26, 2012, 09:30:58 am »
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I thought they did have horned helms but they were decorative. If they didn't have horned helms at all, how did the idea of vikings and horned helmets come about?
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Re: What Vikings really looked like. (Spoiler: They looked like women)
« Reply #12 on: November 26, 2012, 09:58:41 am »
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Atleast they didn't use kuyaks with vaegir warmasks and danish greatswords.
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Re: What Vikings really looked like. (Spoiler: They looked like women)
« Reply #13 on: November 26, 2012, 07:58:19 pm »
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arent you mixing that up with vandals?


which part? that beowulf is a saxon peom or that viking means raiding/adventuring?
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Re: What Vikings really looked like. (Spoiler: They looked like women)
« Reply #14 on: November 26, 2012, 08:11:46 pm »
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which part? that beowulf is a saxon peom or that viking means raiding/adventuring?

viking as a verb.  dont think it is nowadays,  but then again esl here
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