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They Told You Vikings Wore Horns. The Truth Is Stranger.

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It is June, 793. You are a monk on a tidal island off the coast of England, and you see sails on the horizon. The raid was real. But almost everything we hung on it afterwards was not.

Horned helmets, filthy savages, drinking from skulls, burning ships at sea. Most of that picture was painted a thousand years later. This is what the evidence actually says.

CHAPTERS
0:00 Lindisfarne, 793
1:14 The trader who looked like a raider
1:49 "Viking" is something you do, not a people
3:00 The horned helmet was an opera costume
4:00 Combs, baths and the Volga
6:13 Assemblies and women's rights
6:57 The Birka warrior
8:20 Ragnarök and the old gods
9:56 Skull cups and burning ships
10:42 How far they really went
12:44 Back to the island

Sources include the Swedish History Museum, the Roskilde ship finds, the Gjermundbu helmet, Ibn Fadlan's account and the 2020 Viking genome study.

Rough Ages: history the way it really was, not the way it was painted.

#vikings #history #roughages
Category
ICELAND
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vikings, viking history, viking myths
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