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

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
        hexagon
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        1 year ago

        Danes were known for at least as long as Beowulf was known in oral tradition before it was written down to have "shield" and "spear" presentations when their boats came to shore in foreign lands. The shields meant "we're here to trade" trade-offer and the spears were "you should have traded." hypersus

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
      hexagon
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      1 year ago

      I took a calculated risk by invoking some Beowulf (yes, that involves Geats) assuming no one would go full reddit-logo on me for having a little fast and loose fun with vaguely related seafaring warriors.

      But you did. congratulations

      • MoreAmphibians [none/use name]
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        1 year ago

        Once you pay the nerd-geld you can never be rid of the nerd. But seriously, you made a pedantic nerd topic and didn't expect other pedantic nerds to show up?

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
          hexagon
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          1 year ago

          It's pedantic to be annoyed by modern faddish hairstyles that are popular with chuds being plastered over ostensibly "historically accurate" shows?

          Yeah, good, okay. only-good-gamer

          • Moss [they/them]
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            1 year ago

            Lol why are you acting like people are laying into you and debate lording you when you made a historical mistake in a post about being annoyed by historical mistakes

            It's pedantic to be annoyed by modern faddish hairstyles that are popular with chuds being plastered over ostensibly "historically accurate" shows?

            Yes it actually is

            • UlyssesT [he/him]
              hexagon
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              1 year ago

              Lol

              The "lol" doesn't hide your petty rage. It kind of highlights it.

              when you made a historical mistake in a post about being annoyed by historical mistakes

              One requires digging into references to be vindictively pedantic and the other is about obvious and outwardly absurd modern haircuts, popularized by chuds, in the treat you're defending. debord-tired

          • Sinister [none/use name, comrade/them]B
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            1 year ago

            Are you also annoyed by the black hot topic lowkey bdsm leather clothing in medieval/medivial fantasy shows? Because I am for sure! Like it looks soo out of place and is the equivalent of portraying the modern-day American fast-food worker wearing striped suits made out of diamond plates.

            • UlyssesT [he/him]
              hexagon
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              1 year ago

              Are you also annoyed by the black hot topic lowkey bdsm leather clothing in medieval/medivial fantasy shows?

              I am, though primarily because it's another glaring example of how "historical accuracy" is an excuse for awooga libertarian-alert hypersus with a side order of us-foreign-policy and as long as those elements are present, ice zombies and dragons and silly modernized costumes are all fine and "historically accurate" enough.