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Vikings had dirty matted ass hair because ancient Europeans were a filthy people who would shit in their drinking water and wonder why they got sick

You’re both wrong.

Vikings bathed like all the damn time. It was one of the reasons for a long time you had people from the rest of Europe seeing them as untrustworthy weirdos. They carried combs on their belts because they put a lot of stock in having orderly and often elaborately braided hair. Sometimes they’d pack the braids with mud to hold them in place in battles (which their opponents, like the COMPLETELY non-bathing Romans) would mistake for dreads, but in peaceful situations they’d immediately clean it out again.

The Vikings didn’t have dreads, but they were also a pretty clean group of people until they were forcibly assimilated into the rest of medieval Europe.

Thank you for laying down some history truth!

Vikings bathed once a week, and that made all of Europe think that they were stuck-up prudes.

They also thought they were nuts for *gasp* WEARING AND WASHING UNDERWEAR.

The vikings bathed so much they were accused of trying to seduce woman solely based on how clean they were:

It is reported in the chronicle attributed to John of Wallingford that the Danes, thanks to their habit of combing their hair every day, of bathing every Saturday and regularly changing their clothes, were able to undermine the virtue of married women and even seduce the daughters of nobles to be their mistresses.

This cracks me up so bad. Like THESE HEATHENS ARE TRYING TO RUIN VIRTOUS WOMEN WITH THEIR CLEANLINESS!

The Nordic words for Saturday literally translate as “bathing day” or “pool day”.