Vikings Were Pretty

[snurri]

The university's department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic has published a guide revealing how much of the Vikings' history has been misrepresented.

They did not, in fact, wear horned or winged helmets. And they appear to have been a vain race who were concerned about their appearance.

Seriously, the helmet thing drives me nuts. Particularly living in a state where the football mascot wears big stupid horns.

Comments

[janradder.livejournal.com]

What?????!!!!!

Damn you, Stan Lee and Dik Browne!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Yes, but this is a good sorting mechanism! Horns: piker. Bunad: um. Perhaps a tiny bit too invested in her own heritage, but not a piker.

(I would look awesome in a bunad. Just ask me and I'll tell you. Or in this case, you don't even have to ask. It's just a service I provide.)

[e-juliana.livejournal.com]

Gives a whole new spin to "Viking In The Sack", doesn't it?

(I use the Stitch icon because I think he and the VIkings had a lot in common. Yis.)

[silk-noir.livejournal.com]

Auuughhhhhhhhhh.

[scarypudding.livejournal.com]

Everyone talks about pillaging like there's something WRONG with it.

Meanwhile...

[scarypudding.livejournal.com]

Prominent women in Reykjavik are blaming the recent collapse of the Icelandic banking system on "Viking values."