Short version: they looked a lot more like 
than 
. 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 
experience for doing so. 
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. 
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
Yes it actually is
The "lol" doesn't hide your petty rage. It kind of highlights it.
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.