depictions & descriptions of viking-period hairstyles are pretty sparse, but this kind of tonsure/style frequently depicted on the Bayuex Tapestry shares some characteristics with a "fade". translating a text description or a shoddy picture like this onto someone's actual hair is pretty difficult, i wouldn't be surprised if stylists' attempts at that looked more modern 'fade'-y than not.
Dancing man with horned head-dress and man with spear wearing wolfskin! The best Torslunda plate. The Northman referenced this in the berserkr ritual scene
That specifically looks like Cossack hair. Shaped in back with a long loc up front. Bonus if you put that into a braid it would sit under a helmet and give a bit of nice extra padding.
those are normans though, arent they? not saying they didnt wear a norse hairstyle but they were pretty far removed culturally from their norse roots at that point, so maybe it's not a norse hairstyle but a specifically norman (or shudder french) hairstyle
its a norman-made tapestry, it depicts other kinds of people.
but typing hairstyles to cultures based on 1 (one) source is pretty silly regardless, all we can definitively say is that some people round 1066 wore a hairstyle that got represented in that way, we don't know how it was worn or for what purpose
and to the "horned helmet" doubters:
Dancing man with horned head-dress and man with spear wearing wolfskin! The best Torslunda plate. The Northman referenced this in the berserkr ritual scene
That specifically looks like Cossack hair. Shaped in back with a long loc up front. Bonus if you put that into a braid it would sit under a helmet and give a bit of nice extra padding.
the hair honestly looks badass, sucks that russians use it as a slur
There are still some cossack larpers in kuban tho.
those are normans though, arent they? not saying they didnt wear a norse hairstyle but they were pretty far removed culturally from their norse roots at that point, so maybe it's not a norse hairstyle but a specifically norman (or shudder french) hairstyle
its a norman-made tapestry, it depicts other kinds of people.
but typing hairstyles to cultures based on 1 (one) source is pretty silly regardless, all we can definitively say is that some people round 1066 wore a hairstyle that got represented in that way, we don't know how it was worn or for what purpose