[pepsi_junkie]

However, the archaeologists behind the report warn of some caveats: There are still few finds from the Viking Age, and there remains little to no pigment on those that do exist. Pigments could have been removed during excavations or by decay after hundreds of years of burial..

Yeah but there is art from the period and it shows people in rich greens, blues, reds. Not the ubiquitous shades of brown you see in movies of periods from the dark ages up to the renaissance.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

They are painted in their best clothes not their everyday stuff.