Viking Hygiene by Rob Shackleford

Jan 16, 2021
Viking Hygiene 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 So Vikings weren’t the unwashed heathens our popular media likes to engender. Archaeological finds of grooming items from the Viking period show that such equipment has not significantly changed over the years. In “the toilet bags” of the Vikings, we find beautifully patterned combs, ear picks and tweezers. Wear marks on teeth also indicate that tooth picks were used. Items used for…
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What did Vikings look like?

Jan 10, 2021
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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