Short version: they looked a lot more like HEYAYA than yes-chad . Most accounts of Vikings that are contemporary of the centuries where shield-Danes and spear-Danes went "a-Viking" describe distinctly hygenic people that bathed and took care of their hair (and wore it long).

EDIT: I thought I could have a little fun with a very loosely associated Beowulf reference to Danes (and even more loose associations with Geats therein too) but I got the reddit-logo berdly-actually experience for doing so. ok

They didn't have Hitler Youth fades with lazy and sloppy beard fusions. Period. Full stop. Stop doing that. Looking right the fuck at you too, P R E S T I G E T V. disgost

  • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Related to the "see themselves in a character from over 1000 years ago" thing, some people take a bizarrely literal interpretation of the fact that several gods in the tales break gender norms, and take that as a statement of cultural acceptance without really reading further than that.

    See incest in Ancient Greece, where it was considered vile for people to do and appeared among the gods in part to emphasize that the nature of gods and humans was different.