What did Vikings look like?

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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