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The women also had beautiful hairstyles, and they often had long hair that was attractively styled, maybe with some beads or other accessories in their hair, if they could afford them.
ANCIENT NORDIC WARRIORS SERIES
A reverse mullet is when you have long hair in the front and short hair in the back of the head somewhat like Bjorn from the series Vikings had, I think it was in season 2. One of the most popular Danish hairstyles in the Viking age was a reverse mullet. Sweyn Forkbeard most likely got his nickname because his beard was divided in two, so it looked like a fork, and Harald Fairhair probably had a fine head of hair that earned him his nickname. For instance, the famous Vikings Sweyn Forkbeard (In Danish: Svend Tveskæg) and Harald Fairhair both got their nickname because of it. The men in the Viking age loved their hair and beard, in fact, they loved it so much they sometimes got their nickname after it. People with blonde hair were mostly located in northern Scandinavia, for instance, around Stockholm in Sweden, and people with red hair were mostly located in the western part of Scandinavia, for instance, in Denmark. There were, in fact, two dominant hair colors in the Viking society, blonde hair, and red hair. If you think that the most dominant hair color in the Viking age was blonde hair then you are unfortunately wrong. Just like today, people have all kinds of hair color in society, but of course, some hair colors were more dominant in the Viking age. In movies and series about the Vikings, we often see them portrayed with blond hair, which is not entirely accurate. Photo: Jelling – riget og regenten Viking hair and beard styles The women had more prominent brow ridges which are typically a masculine feature, and the men had a more feminine face than today with a less prominent jaw and brow ridges.īecause of the facial features being more alike for men and women, it is sometimes difficult to decide if a Viking skeleton was a male or a female based on the skull alone. In the Viking Age, the facial features of the men and women were more alike than they are today.
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One of the reasons for this is, of course, the hard physical work, that was needed to survive in a landscape like Scandinavia in the Viking age. The Vikings were more robust and muscular than the average person, and that was for both women and men.
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Vikings are often portrayed as being strong with big muscles, and that is actually not that far from the truth. Latin: Quales numquam antea in gente Francorum visi fuissent, in pulchritudine videlicet ac proceritate corporum.Įnglish: In that battle, such men are said to have been killed among the Northmen as had never been seen before among the Frankish people, namely in their beauty and the size of their bodies. It mentions the appearance of the Vikings at a battle in 884, were the Franks defeated a Viking raid in Saxony. Other sources also mention the Vikings as having been tall, for instance in the East Frankish chronicles called Annals of Fulda. From fingertips to their neck, each of them has a collection of trees, figures, and the like.” (Did the Vikings have tattoos?) The swords are broad and grooved, of Frankish sort. ” Each man has an axe, a sword, and a knife and keeps each by him at all times. I have never seen more perfect physical specimens, tall as date palms, blonde and ruddy they wear neither tunics nor caftans, but the men wear a garment which covers one side of the body and leaves a hand free.“ “ I have seen the Rus as they came on their merchant journeys and encamped by the Volga.