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Vikings Loved Bling – Viking Jewellery Part 1 by Rob Shackleford

Feb 17, 20210 Comments

Vikings Loved Bling - Viking Jewellery Part 1 by Rob Shackleford Humans love jewellery! Humans have always used jewellery and other personal adornments to reflect their identity. These adornments may have represented membership in a particular group or someone’s age, sex, and social status. Vikings also loved jewellery. Norse people of old made beautiful and intricate jewelry in the form of bracelets, rings, necklaces, etc., out of a variety of materials including bronze, iron, gold, silver, amber, and resin. Early on in the Viking era , which is around 800 AD, these ornaments were simple, but as time went by,…

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What did Viking Women Wear? by Rob Shackleford

Feb 03, 20210 Comments

What did Viking Women Wear? by Rob Shackleford For more on Vikings, check out the links of previous Viking Blogs below: Why Vikings? Who Were the Vikings? What did Vikings Look Like? Vikings - The Ginger Connection Vikings Dirty and Unkempt Viking Hygiene Viking Clothes - Looking Good was Important! What did Viking Men wear? Like today's men and women, the Vikings dressed according to sex, age and economic status. Most important - their clothing was hard wearing and warm! The men preferred trousers and tunics, whilst the women dressed in strap dresses worn over undergarments. Ordinary Viking clothes were made of local materials, like wool and…

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Vikings – the Ginger Connection – by Rob Shackleford

Jan 10, 20210 Comments

Vikings - The Ginger Connection by Rob Shackleford Were Vikings Redheads? For more Blogs on Vikings, check out the links of previous Viking below: Why Vikings? Who Were the Vikings? What did Vikings Look Like? We see them on TV – tall, barrel-chested fellows wielding an axe and intent on plunder. Vikings! They were tall, blonde and terrifying. But was everything as it seemed? Genetic studies show that Vikings were really descended from a variety of genetic lines, many originating from the steppes of central Asia. There was a healthy mix of blonds, redheads and dark-haired people, just like today.…

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What did Vikings look like?

Jan 10, 20210 Comments

What did Vikings look like? - by Rob Shackleford For more Blogs on Vikings, check out the links of previous Viking below: Why Vikings? Who Were the Vikings? Think of the traditional view of Vikings. They were tall, blonde, wearing winged or horned helmets and sailed the seas in longboats to rape and pillage. Despite ancient sagas that celebrate seafaring adventurers with complex lineages, there remains a persistent, and pernicious, modern myth that Vikings were a distinctive ethnic or regional group of people with a “pure” genetic bloodline. That is but one of so many inaccurate tales and legends attached…

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Who were the Vikings?

Jan 09, 20210 Comments

Who were the Vikings? by Rob Shackleford For more Blogs on Vikings, check out the links of previous Viking below: Why Vikings? Vikings were a people some called Norsemen – North Men. They were residents of scattered farming and fishing communities that existed in the far north of Europe in what is now known as Denmark, Norway, Sweden and perhaps Finland. This was long before they became unified nations. These North Men developed significant advances in shipping technology in the 7th and 8th centuries that meant their boats were powered by sails, rather than solely by oars. Made of…

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Why Vikings?

Jan 05, 20210 Comments

Why Write about Vikings? - by Rob Shackleford As part of my perpetual drive for better exposure as an author, and hopefully to allow promotion and sale of my books, an activity my Publisher is failing to engage in, I have to bite the bullet and write more blogs. So, why Vikings? My first three novels, Traveller Inceptio, Traveller Probo and Traveller Manifesto are a gentle science-fiction and historical fiction blend that start with the premise that a device was invented that would allow people from our age to be transported back in time, but strictly 1000 years only. As…

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