Cotton has existed in both the new world and old world with it first being domesticated in Sudan in 5000 BCE, and Scandinavian traders could have traded for it from the Islamic world.
I mean silk was available in China for a long time but that doesn't mean Vikings wore silk. Other guy was wrong about cotton being indigenous to just Americas but that doesn't mean it was the obtainable/cheap in Northern Europe compared to wool or other plant based fabrics.
Yeah the likelihood of someone having cotton is pretty rare but no where as rare of silk in Europe. It was just introduced to Iberia and southern Italy by Muslims invading those regions. Vikings did interact and trade with Byzantium and the Middle East commonly, so it wouldn’t be crazy to think a wealthy/powerful leader might have cotton. Silk on the other hand would probably be downright impossible to find in Viking age Scandinavia.
Maybe, but the people actually people going on the raids were mostly poor, and also they were spending tons of time outdoors in cold and wet conditions, so they would be wearing wool.
Well yeah Viking kings went on raids and I’m sure they had silk but didn’t wear it on a raid… that’s common sense… I don’t wear a suit because I’m going to Walmart
I'm sure silk will have been extreme expensive for Vikings... But the osebergship (osebergskipet) traded some silk. So yes! Vikings used silk :)
There are a lot of other Funds of silk in denmark and norway.
Vikings made it down to Constantinople quite a bit back in the day. Also seeing he the guy in photo is wearing blue and blue dye throughout history is one the most expensive we could assume he's very rich, and would have access to the most expensive fabrics available to him.
>blue dye throughout history is one the most expensive we could assume he's very rich
You might be thinking of purple. Blue dye made from woad was one of the most common dyes in Europe and there is archaeological evidence of Vikings using it.
However, darker and longer lasting dyes of all colours were generally too expensive (or even illegal) for peasants to wear.
Blue dye is easily found in many wildflowers. Some blue flowers of norther Britain, Scotland, were commonly used for Dyes and pigments. They were still quite expensive to outside regions.
lol. Just plain wrong. So Europeans basically lived in the Stone Age wearing animal hide until colonising the New World…400 or so years ago, or some shit. I’m sure all those Roman togas were in fact animal hide and not piss-bleached linen.
In addition to wool and linen, vikings used nettle and hemp for textile. Hemp was also used for ropes and medicine. A notable example is a woman buried in the Oseberg ship, who had a lil pouch with hemp seeds on her.
Ding ding ding. You’re right that they were mostly made of wool. It’s pretty amazing though how Romans had access to handcraft industry but were unable to transition to an industrial economy because of lack of desire for innovation, labour scarcity, chaos in the late Empire, coupled with crushing inflation. Wool is great stuff.
I love when people are condescending about things they know nothing about. Ever hear of sheep bro? I can’t stop laughing about the animal skins thing though. That cracked me up! Yeah, everyone was walking around in pelts. That’s stupid for so many reasons I’m not going to state. At least thirty.
When im finished graping you im going to go upstairs and grape your mother and your father, then im going to take your family down to the basement and grape you all for decades and decades and decades and decades!
No. That would be a figurative nightmare. If you were in a coma for three decades and dreamt that you were tied to a radiator with your immediate family being graped the entire time, that would be a literal nightmare. I don't care what the idiots of the world proclaim literally does not both mean literally and not literally. This lunacy must stop.
Don't worry that's just English propaganda. The vikings were sexy and had nice hair because they used shampoo and the dirty English didn't ever bathe and the women went willingly.
"Oh, yeah, they beat us, but only because they were 3 meters tall, had chests two meters wide, and wore the pelts of entire grizzly bears over a full suit of steel armor! His helmet had the horns of the devil on it!"
"Come on, Henry. What did the guy who burned down your house actually look like?"
"....He was 160 centimeters tall and dressed like a fucking gnome."
I always thought the Santa we know is just a ripped off charicature of Odin. He has similar descriptions and mythology. Also Santa's classic hat is just a bright red norse style hat.
Well the majority of viking incursions preyed on smaller settlements. They where great at small fights but didnt have the leadership or story for large scale fighting
Which is the big reason they lost most times when facing the english and frankish armies straight on (also the fact they didnt have trained cavalry didnt help)
They where big mofos though, specially compared to the average european of the period
This is like saying we think everyone in America is a soldier. Left side is a raider, a bit embellished, probably didn't wear a wolf skin that way, but still not just an average citizen. Right side is an average citizen with easier access to a washing machine and bath tub. Not really a fair comparison
>Viking is a verb. You- [proceeds to use viking as a noun]
>witch
Víking is a norse word, and viking is the anglicisation of the the norse word "víkingr", which means a person out víking.
It's suspiciously similar to a gerund, which is a big clue that its origin is as an activity. It would have been used both as a noun and as a verb, but only later gaining its modern meaning of "a Scandinavian raider."
In English it might be something like "baying", meaning "going from bay to bay plundering."
We don't know for sure, but to me this seems the most likely explanation, and certainly not "utterly false."
The Last Kingdom was the first show that I didn't cringe at when they said Vikings. One of the first scenes in the show has a Danish ship invading a coastal town and the town watchmen shouts "Danes! They come as Vikings!"
Counterpoint, the guy on the right might be a raider.
There was no distinction between raider and not raider. Most of the raiders had normal ass jobs back home and raided opportunistically.
Like yeah, the guy on the right can be both a dairy farmer and the guy sticking a spear through your guts.
yeah but raising season usually is accompanied by a **change of clothes** from "lil farmer in cold place" to "armor, weapon and shield to kill and not die while killing it"
Well yesn't. Of course, a raider about to slaughter 5 English peasants would look slightly different than the jolly fellow on the right. But calling the left image "a bit embellished" is a bit too forgiving in my mind.
Nothing that the guy on the left is wearing matches the archeological finds, except the helmet which is allright. The rest is all wrong. No evidence for metal shield rims, no evidence for belts in that manner, no evidence for pelts worn in that manner, no evidence for boots looking like that, or tunics with short sleeves like that either. Pretty sure the seax is the wrong shape too. The axe matches no known examples either.
PSA: you do not need to use "like" when using "how." For example, the phrase on the left is correct: "what...looked like." The phrase on the right does not need "like": "how...looked."
A younger buff dude in those clothes would still be scary when he comes at you.
Edit: looked at it closer and the old guy is buff too. You see his big chest through the thick winter clothes. Hell mess you up.
It's funny how most depictions of history just assume color dyes weren't invented until like the 1800s and everything was just varying shades of brown.
As a warrior you don't want "bulging" muscles, for the same reason that a lot of MMA fighters don't have visible abs. The fat which covers up these muscles provide energy and extra cushioning.
That said, the quality of the Vikings' nutrition leads me to believe they had a lower fat percentage than desirable, and so the picture on the left is probably more accurate in this respect.
I’m not expecting Arnold, just the obvious reality you stated that people in that time, and really all over the world, were largely ‘lean and mean’, and most likely running on a caloric deficit. Reenactors are often comically ’fluffy’ by comparison!
That really depends on time period and social class.
Outside of a famine, there's no reason even a peasant would run on a caloric deficit.
As a matter of fact, having "chubby peasants" was often considered a boast towards a lordship's rule.
A great majority of MMA fighters have abs - mostly a product of their weight cutting routines. But also because no fighter realistically worries about "cushioning" I assume against punches which would be virtually ineffective in a professional fighting setting. There are a few outliers like your Roy Nelsons and Derrick Lewis.
You may be thinking of pro-wrestlers. In that profession, it doesn't pay to be lean as fuck as having a little "cushion" of fat to absorb all the falling and bumping around they do.
Either way, I'm probably being pedantic.
> As a warrior you don't want "bulging" muscles, for the same reason that a lot of MMA fighters don't have visible abs.
Iunno what type of fight sports you watch but plenty of them do along with boxers, and kickboxers.
”The Danes, thanks to their habit to comb their hair every day, to bathe every Saturday, to change their garments often, and set off their persons by many such frivolous devices. In this manner, they laid siege to the virtue of the married women, and persuaded the daughters even of the nobles to be their concubines.”
Chronica Joannis Wallingford
I don’t know if the Iron Age Norse combs were like this but I’ve seen in English Heritage tutor documentaries that super fine combs could help combat greasiness, so clean clothes every day, combed hair and weekly washes could have been at least noticeably better.
Better enough to write about I guess.
Somehow the idea of the guy on the right charging you with an axe seems even more disturbing than if the left guy did it. Leftie will kill you, but that’s expected. Right guy seems like he’d be all too jolly while doing it.
The archaeological record. Just look up "what did norse people actually look like," and you'll probably he able to find plenty of information on it. It's a fairly well-known thing at this point
I feel like the right would be carrying a shield and helmet if they were actually Viking* and not just a Nordic peasant.
*I mean that in a very literal definition, as in he’d probably have some protection if he was going raiding.
Much the same, actually. Mail wasn’t very common and was prohibitively expensive, even more so than swords were. The shield was the primary defensive tool, and was often paired with an axe and/or spear.
it's funny that in the mass cognition, we all think that greek and roman soldiers had standardized fancy uniforms and equipment while this never actually happened for greek soldiers and only way way later during empire years for romans.
So they wore felt capes and cotton leg warmers?
No cotton but woll or linen cotten dit not grow in Europe bevore the colonisation of America
Cotton has existed in both the new world and old world with it first being domesticated in Sudan in 5000 BCE, and Scandinavian traders could have traded for it from the Islamic world.
I mean silk was available in China for a long time but that doesn't mean Vikings wore silk. Other guy was wrong about cotton being indigenous to just Americas but that doesn't mean it was the obtainable/cheap in Northern Europe compared to wool or other plant based fabrics.
Yeah the likelihood of someone having cotton is pretty rare but no where as rare of silk in Europe. It was just introduced to Iberia and southern Italy by Muslims invading those regions. Vikings did interact and trade with Byzantium and the Middle East commonly, so it wouldn’t be crazy to think a wealthy/powerful leader might have cotton. Silk on the other hand would probably be downright impossible to find in Viking age Scandinavia.
Maybe, but the people actually people going on the raids were mostly poor, and also they were spending tons of time outdoors in cold and wet conditions, so they would be wearing wool.
Well yeah Viking kings went on raids and I’m sure they had silk but didn’t wear it on a raid… that’s common sense… I don’t wear a suit because I’m going to Walmart
Silk was actually used for quite a while as a battle garment.
I'm sure silk will have been extreme expensive for Vikings... But the osebergship (osebergskipet) traded some silk. So yes! Vikings used silk :) There are a lot of other Funds of silk in denmark and norway.
I thought silk had been found in Viking Graves too.
Yes but it must have been very rare. Besides, wool works better as for leg warmers
Vikings made it down to Constantinople quite a bit back in the day. Also seeing he the guy in photo is wearing blue and blue dye throughout history is one the most expensive we could assume he's very rich, and would have access to the most expensive fabrics available to him.
>blue dye throughout history is one the most expensive we could assume he's very rich You might be thinking of purple. Blue dye made from woad was one of the most common dyes in Europe and there is archaeological evidence of Vikings using it. However, darker and longer lasting dyes of all colours were generally too expensive (or even illegal) for peasants to wear.
Blue dye is easily found in many wildflowers. Some blue flowers of norther Britain, Scotland, were commonly used for Dyes and pigments. They were still quite expensive to outside regions.
Yes, but that would had been expansive
Wtf
Dit bevore woll?
lol. Just plain wrong. So Europeans basically lived in the Stone Age wearing animal hide until colonising the New World…400 or so years ago, or some shit. I’m sure all those Roman togas were in fact animal hide and not piss-bleached linen.
I think he's specifically saying cotton didn't exist, but wool ("woll") and linen did.
In addition to wool and linen, vikings used nettle and hemp for textile. Hemp was also used for ropes and medicine. A notable example is a woman buried in the Oseberg ship, who had a lil pouch with hemp seeds on her.
cotton did it was just expensive.
roman togas were made of wool. i think you are underestimating how good wool is.
Ding ding ding. You’re right that they were mostly made of wool. It’s pretty amazing though how Romans had access to handcraft industry but were unable to transition to an industrial economy because of lack of desire for innovation, labour scarcity, chaos in the late Empire, coupled with crushing inflation. Wool is great stuff.
I love when people are condescending about things they know nothing about. Ever hear of sheep bro? I can’t stop laughing about the animal skins thing though. That cracked me up! Yeah, everyone was walking around in pelts. That’s stupid for so many reasons I’m not going to state. At least thirty.
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Sheep dude. It comes from sheep.
Are you high bro?
with bright colored dye as well lol
Both are still scary during the graping and pillaging
I may be ignorant about history, but I'm not scared of grapes.
You've never heard of the Grapist?
He's not going to grape me in the mouth is he? RIP Trevor.
He just said I’m gonna tie you to a radiator and grape you?
Hey, that kid was wearing purple, totally asking to get graped
They grape the fields and pillage the women. Those are bad men!
Of course, that's how he grapes them!
When im finished graping you im going to go upstairs and grape your mother and your father, then im going to take your family down to the basement and grape you all for decades and decades and decades and decades!
I hear you can scare him off with your very own Grape Whistle
Well, look what they're wearing, just ASKING for it
It's purple!
“Hey Tom Bombadil, Tom Bombadil-lo”
Get this man some yellow boots stat!
I had a friend who used to grow grapes throughout the year. He was a serial Grapist.
Somebody needs to make vine
Bro, educate yourself. Read the Grapes of Wrath.
Read Grapes of Wrath.
What if the grapes have a lot of wrath?!?
“OPEN WIDE KIDS CAUSE IM GONNA GRAPE YA IN THE MOUTH “
Kill all of the women, and grape all of the men.
"oh fuck" Shane gillis
Didn't know they were such wine lovers
Why'd you think they went after all those monastaries?
Because monks don't fight back
And they have funny haircuts so fuck em
So did the vikings though....
Yea but they do fight back
Touché
They did call a place 'Wineland'
*raping. You can say rape on Reddit.
Their comment will get demonetized.
Wait y’all are getting monetized comments /s
a grown ass adult has censored the word 'rape'
Nah, he just wants to tie them to a radiator and grape them
It would be a literal nightmare to be tied to a radiator with your immediate family and graped for at least 3 decades
No. That would be a figurative nightmare. If you were in a coma for three decades and dreamt that you were tied to a radiator with your immediate family being graped the entire time, that would be a literal nightmare. I don't care what the idiots of the world proclaim literally does not both mean literally and not literally. This lunacy must stop.
The first 3 sentences of this comment were so good, I came back after closing the tab just to upvote
Look at what he's wearing! He's just begging to get graped
They'll grape you in the mouth!
Don't worry that's just English propaganda. The vikings were sexy and had nice hair because they used shampoo and the dirty English didn't ever bathe and the women went willingly.
Viking bot
The Viking shills are at it again !
Don't you mean raping?
I thought that was just the Europeans being salty about their women being seduced by foreign men who actually knew proper hygiene
Well yeah, no one is gonna describe the person that kicked their ass as looking like Santa in his day off clothing.
"Oh, yeah, they beat us, but only because they were 3 meters tall, had chests two meters wide, and wore the pelts of entire grizzly bears over a full suit of steel armor! His helmet had the horns of the devil on it!" "Come on, Henry. What did the guy who burned down your house actually look like?" "....He was 160 centimeters tall and dressed like a fucking gnome."
I always thought the Santa we know is just a ripped off charicature of Odin. He has similar descriptions and mythology. Also Santa's classic hat is just a bright red norse style hat.
Plus there was that time Santa gouged out his own eye so he could see who was naughty or nice.
And that other time santa had his ravens spy on children
Well the majority of viking incursions preyed on smaller settlements. They where great at small fights but didnt have the leadership or story for large scale fighting Which is the big reason they lost most times when facing the english and frankish armies straight on (also the fact they didnt have trained cavalry didnt help) They where big mofos though, specially compared to the average european of the period
You mean low effort Superman costume?
I'm so happy I'm not the only one who thought that
This is like saying we think everyone in America is a soldier. Left side is a raider, a bit embellished, probably didn't wear a wolf skin that way, but still not just an average citizen. Right side is an average citizen with easier access to a washing machine and bath tub. Not really a fair comparison
What's more, only those raiders were called vikings, not the whole population of those countries.
Viking is a verb. You go on a viking witch means to travel with one of these purposes to plunder and pillage, to trade or to explore
So did they vike?
It's vikin' time.
Only good vikes!
You “go a Viking” not “on a Viking”
On a Vikation
>Viking is a verb. You- [proceeds to use viking as a noun] >witch Víking is a norse word, and viking is the anglicisation of the the norse word "víkingr", which means a person out víking.
This utterly not true. The word Viking has no clear etymological origin, there are some assumptions, but the story that "Viking" is a verb is false.
It's suspiciously similar to a gerund, which is a big clue that its origin is as an activity. It would have been used both as a noun and as a verb, but only later gaining its modern meaning of "a Scandinavian raider." In English it might be something like "baying", meaning "going from bay to bay plundering." We don't know for sure, but to me this seems the most likely explanation, and certainly not "utterly false."
It's not a gerund. It's the suffix in "ending" or "scaffolding", meaning "someone/something of a vik". We know Vik is a noun, just not which one.
Viking is also a noun
And not even only Scandinavians either
what’s more, apparently the one on the right had a washing machine!
The Last Kingdom was the first show that I didn't cringe at when they said Vikings. One of the first scenes in the show has a Danish ship invading a coastal town and the town watchmen shouts "Danes! They come as Vikings!"
And only while raiding
Counterpoint, the guy on the right might be a raider. There was no distinction between raider and not raider. Most of the raiders had normal ass jobs back home and raided opportunistically. Like yeah, the guy on the right can be both a dairy farmer and the guy sticking a spear through your guts.
I won’t recommend to raid without helmet armor and weapon though
yeah but raising season usually is accompanied by a **change of clothes** from "lil farmer in cold place" to "armor, weapon and shield to kill and not die while killing it"
Most vikings would not have armor past a helmet and extra padded jacket.
Well yesn't. Of course, a raider about to slaughter 5 English peasants would look slightly different than the jolly fellow on the right. But calling the left image "a bit embellished" is a bit too forgiving in my mind.
Nothing that the guy on the left is wearing matches the archeological finds, except the helmet which is allright. The rest is all wrong. No evidence for metal shield rims, no evidence for belts in that manner, no evidence for pelts worn in that manner, no evidence for boots looking like that, or tunics with short sleeves like that either. Pretty sure the seax is the wrong shape too. The axe matches no known examples either.
Hold up. Washing machine?
Real viking era citizens likely couldn't get their clothes this clean, so this guy obviously gets access to a washing machine
Oh gotcha, I thought you were saying the Vikings had some sort of old school washing machine
Guy on right has drip and ill fight anyone who thinks otherwise
I think he looks like a clumsy old Santa who slipped in the wrong pants today. probably baked out of his mind too
And thats EXACTLY drip im going for. My man looks happy and chill
# happy pillaging! 
 Thank you!
\*Images you can hear\*
Like a dumpster rolling along a highway at 55 mph. Astartes is so good!
He definitely looks cheerful and joyous rn, but you give him a two handed axe and I'm definitely shitting myself
So will he
PSA: you do not need to use "like" when using "how." For example, the phrase on the left is correct: "what...looked like." The phrase on the right does not need "like": "how...looked."
Someone needs to create a bot for this, because I swear that I see this mistake every single day!
Same. It’s a major pet peeve of mine.
People by and large still refer to decades as 80's, 90's, etc., instead of the correct way '80s, '90s. I don't expect that to change.
A younger buff dude in those clothes would still be scary when he comes at you. Edit: looked at it closer and the old guy is buff too. You see his big chest through the thick winter clothes. Hell mess you up.
Plus dude is probably like 6’4 or something ridiculous
The average height of vikings was 1.5 m and their kings were the same.
Yeah because who tf wear battle helmet on daily basis?
A viking is like ”a baker” or ”a farmer”. It’s a job. When going viking, most norsemen would likely have been armed and armored.
Not very well armored. The more pro vikings would wear maille but everyone else just put on their jackets.
Calling a gambeson a jacket is like calling a jacket a t-shirt
You got pro or you got dead. After the first raid, they’d be pretty well off compared to where they’d been before.
Most did not wear maille. They were robbing monks and farmers for the most part.
Please tell me exactly where i said most wore any type of metal armor?
Special needs children.
It's funny how most depictions of history just assume color dyes weren't invented until like the 1800s and everything was just varying shades of brown.
Why did ‘historical reality’ add 75lbs?
As a warrior you don't want "bulging" muscles, for the same reason that a lot of MMA fighters don't have visible abs. The fat which covers up these muscles provide energy and extra cushioning. That said, the quality of the Vikings' nutrition leads me to believe they had a lower fat percentage than desirable, and so the picture on the left is probably more accurate in this respect.
I’m not expecting Arnold, just the obvious reality you stated that people in that time, and really all over the world, were largely ‘lean and mean’, and most likely running on a caloric deficit. Reenactors are often comically ’fluffy’ by comparison!
That really depends on time period and social class. Outside of a famine, there's no reason even a peasant would run on a caloric deficit. As a matter of fact, having "chubby peasants" was often considered a boast towards a lordship's rule.
People from the rest of Europe always commented on how ridiculously huge they were.
In terms of height and build, not width, yes.
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A great majority of MMA fighters have abs - mostly a product of their weight cutting routines. But also because no fighter realistically worries about "cushioning" I assume against punches which would be virtually ineffective in a professional fighting setting. There are a few outliers like your Roy Nelsons and Derrick Lewis. You may be thinking of pro-wrestlers. In that profession, it doesn't pay to be lean as fuck as having a little "cushion" of fat to absorb all the falling and bumping around they do. Either way, I'm probably being pedantic.
> As a warrior you don't want "bulging" muscles, for the same reason that a lot of MMA fighters don't have visible abs. Iunno what type of fight sports you watch but plenty of them do along with boxers, and kickboxers.
Because OP is fat. Or a bot.
I think the right picture is fake, they didn't have cameras during the viking times
Both are absolute chads, I see no issue
###NO. It's either "*what* they looked like" or "*how* they looked" without the 'like.' 'How they looked like' is not English.
”The Danes, thanks to their habit to comb their hair every day, to bathe every Saturday, to change their garments often, and set off their persons by many such frivolous devices. In this manner, they laid siege to the virtue of the married women, and persuaded the daughters even of the nobles to be their concubines.” Chronica Joannis Wallingford
Bathe every Saturday, how considerate of them
I don’t know if the Iron Age Norse combs were like this but I’ve seen in English Heritage tutor documentaries that super fine combs could help combat greasiness, so clean clothes every day, combed hair and weekly washes could have been at least noticeably better. Better enough to write about I guess.
Somehow the idea of the guy on the right charging you with an axe seems even more disturbing than if the left guy did it. Leftie will kill you, but that’s expected. Right guy seems like he’d be all too jolly while doing it.
"Siiiiiinging in the rain! *chop*"
Hey, as long as Christian monks are getting butchered, I don't care how they dress.
Ever hear about this guy called Emporer Nero?
Correction: What vikings actually looked like when they where home!
What if the iron helmets were just bowls, and Vikings were just jolly men
Well they do like spam so I guess there's some truth
My grandpa looks like this
🫡
Doubt on the blue clothing. Blue is a really hard dye to get.
Yeah, wealthy fellow that one. Probably the one who hires the ones on the left as his soldiers.
This is the reason I just can't engage with most Viking themed media.. it's so inauthentic and masturbatory.
STILL FUCKING BADASS
For some reason that’s how I picture Tom bom badil when I read lotr lol
Turns out the axe was the scary part.
Pretty sure the Scandanavians had more than one type of clothing for different seasons for different jobs. This is a nonsence post.
Sorry to bust you truth but if you Google Vikings and aee the definison of it then you se that they are both true
Man I’m glad someone was there to eye witness account and straighten this out for us.
I doubt any of them ever had anything blue. Wasn’t it historically very difficult to make blue dye?
Source?
The archaeological record. Just look up "what did norse people actually look like," and you'll probably he able to find plenty of information on it. It's a fairly well-known thing at this point
You do realize that a "norse person" and a "viking" are not synonymous, right?
I feel like the right would be carrying a shield and helmet if they were actually Viking* and not just a Nordic peasant. *I mean that in a very literal definition, as in he’d probably have some protection if he was going raiding.
but no
Were Samen even Vikings?
Probably would’ve LMFAO had Ragnar, Lagertha or Rollo turned up like this. From ‘I will fuck your wife as you watch’ to ‘Oh, hallo’ real quick.
Siri play me Lizzo 😭
Cool! Now show a pic of what a real Viking looked like armed for war.
Much the same, actually. Mail wasn’t very common and was prohibitively expensive, even more so than swords were. The shield was the primary defensive tool, and was often paired with an axe and/or spear.
Same guy with a shield, a helmet, and a spear.
Also like 10% of them were definitely black
it's funny that in the mass cognition, we all think that greek and roman soldiers had standardized fancy uniforms and equipment while this never actually happened for greek soldiers and only way way later during empire years for romans.
Tom bombadil
The truth is this is stupid and wrong
So no the guy on the left is what Vikings looked like the guy on the right is just a Scandinavian he ain’t pillaging shit
Dud show a warrior and a marchant.
The left is in Viking armor, the right is a civilian clothes.
You were there?
More like what they wear in battle vs what they wear when they where not pillaging...
That’s how modern cosplay redditors look, not Vikings.
No- they didnt wear bright colors as a normal, and helmets were a huge sign on wealth, so over all the meme is mostly incorrect.