10 interesting facts about Viking warriors

The brave Viking warriors attach great importance to personal hygiene or spend a lot of time growing barley, raising pigs, sheep, goats.

1. Viking warriors don’t wear horned hats. In fact, the artists seem to have adapted to paint more horns on the helmets of these mighty warriors. The horn detail on the hat seems to be composed according to the trend of the nineteenth century. It may have been inspired by the writings of ancient Greek and Roman historians of Northern Europe.
2. Viking warriors are famous for their very clean personal hygiene. Although these excellent warriors were often adrift at sea and beheaded by their enemies, they were very clean people. At excavations where Viking warriors once lived, scientists have found tweezers, razors, combs and ear cleaners made from animal bones and antlers. In addition, they also bathed at least once a week, more than the average European at that time. The Vikings also enjoyed immersing themselves in natural hot springs.
3. The Vikings used a single liquid to light the fire. They collect a fast-growing fungus called wood mold that grows from tree bark. They then boiled the specimen in urine for several days before dipping it in a felt-like object. The sodium nitrate present in the urine will help it smolder rather than explode violently. Therefore, the Vikings could make fire anywhere.
4. Vikings buried the dead on ships. Being buried on a boat was a great honor for the Vikings. According to Norse beliefs, brave warriors after death enter a realm filled with celebration and glory. They also believe that the ship will help these warriors to the end of their lives. Outstanding, socially prominent individuals were often buried on boats along with a variety of weapons, valuable goods and even slave sacrifices.
5. Viking warriors engaged in the slave trade. Many Vikings got rich through human trafficking. They would capture and enslave young women and men while plundering Anglo-Saxon, Celtic and Slavic settlements. Later, the Vikings sold slaves in huge slave markets across Europe and the Middle East.
6. Viking women enjoy some basic rights such as inheriting property, requesting divorce and demanding dowry if their marriage with their partner breaks up. However, these rights only applied to non-slave women.
7. The Vikings spent most of their time working in agriculture. Viking warriors spent more time working in the fields, holding the country, and shoveling than they did with swords. The startling fact makes many people not imagine that some Viking pirates, leaving life on boats, went to cultivate barley, rye and oats. They also raise livestock such as goats, pigs and sheep on their small farms. Usually, those products are just enough to supply a family’s food needs.
8. Vikings love to ski. Primitive snowboards were invented in the Scandinavian peninsula at least 6,000 years ago, although the ancient Russians may have invented them earlier. In the time of the Vikings, they skied to reach many places and it was also a form of entertainment for the people. The Vikings even worshiped a ski god, Ullr.
9. Viking men love the color yellow. The ideal beauty in the culture for this warrior ethnic male is blond hair. To do that, men will use a highly alkaline soap to bleach the hair color, making them brighter. In some areas, lighter colored beards are considered quite good.
10. The Vikings were never unified. During the Viking era, the land of what is now Denmark, Norway and Sweden was where the tribes of this warrior people often fought with swords against each other when they were not attacked by foreign invaders.

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