Yep . . . sure enough, found the original. F.A. v. Kolbach, 1914. Look at the legend at the top of the painting.
Posted on 02/26/2008 6:28:06 AM PST by blam
Such pictures sure do.
Back in the good ol’days, I had professors and other instructors and lecturers who mixed in a Playboy picture or two with their slides... and but would only have it on screen for a second or two. It kept ME much more alert during the class!
No way.
The guy in # 3 looks like a real Viking.
I call a fool, this took 19 posts.
Apparently, all this Viking Horde wearing animal skins and horned helmets is a invention of the media over the last century and a half...........I bet pirates didn’t look like Johnny Depp, and cavemen didn’t look like Ringo Starr, either.......
fool??? = foul. sorry
fool??? = foul. sorry
Probably.
But wearing horns and intimidating paraphenalia to awe your enemy is an old ploy. In the Middle Ages Knights DID wearn horned helmets and helmets with elaborate crests. So did the Samuri. In the 1700’s grenadiers wore large bearskin hats to make themselves look even bigger. Even the Ancient Greeks and Romans wore elaborate crests at times.
BCTP? OPs group B?
Looks like Cher with horns.
By the way, none of this is news. Just read the sagas!
Aiiiiiiiiieeeeeeee...
yeah, she’s a keeper.
Not only that, Bridgett? Maybe Bergit, Bergitte, Berethe, Bergliot, Berethe or Berit, but I think Bridgett is English & from a later era.
Shuttup!!! Bloody Vikings.
Since spelling was something most folks didn't take seriously until the 19th century, confusion is rampant!
You’re right about people’s varied spellings. There weren’t many “standards” until the advent of the dictionary. The first English dictionary wasn’t produced until the eighteenth century.
Standard spellings for names came even later, into the twentieth century & Scandinavians change their names at the drop of a hat. Even with all of the spelling changes, I've yet to come across any "Bridgett" among all of my Scandinavians.
Yep . . . sure enough, found the original. F.A. v. Kolbach, 1914. Look at the legend at the top of the painting.
“Wearing horns and intimidating paraphenalia to awe your enemy is an old ploy.”
The Vikings traveling through Russia and down to the Black Sea were traders. Presumably they might have had a brief period of war and conquest before trading sites were established. The warriors might have dressed one way, the traders who had to negotiate with the local gentry would have wanted to look impressive to wow them. I’ll be that the Vikings who headed to Greenland the North America dressed quite differently. I’ll also bet that the common people doing farming and rowing also dressed much more simply. The guys doing the trade negotions were not doing the rowing, and the guys/gals doing the farming, fishing, and rowing did not get preserved in fancy burials.
Regarding temperatures and scant clothing. The Scandinavians are notorious for taking it all/or mostly off in the warm weather. They have needed the sun exposure to make Vitamin D in their skins and strong bones thereby. Furthermore, people living primatively are often more hardy. Magellan (I think) reported on women of Tierra Del Fuego nursing babies at bare breasts while sleet was falling on them (the breasts). Salacious factoid alert [stop here if you would be offended]. The Fuegan women could require that the men wear a braided hair colar around their penis for sex. Presumably, their bodies were so shut down from the cold they needed the extra stimulation (like the barbs a male cat has, ever wonder why the female cat yowls so?). They could get a divorce if their mate refused, the women, not the cats.
If it is, the horns are probably silicone.
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