Were Vikings really dirty savages who wore horned helmets, or did they look like we do today? Here’s what the experts say.
There’s no shortage of myths about the appearance of our notorious Viking ancestors.
To
find out more about these myths, ScienceNordic’s Danish partner site,
videnskab.dk, asked its Facebook readers to list their favourite myths
about what the Vikings looked like.
We have picked out five myths from the resulting debate and asked researchers to help us confirm or bust these myths.
Armed
with this information, our graphic designer then took a shot at drawing
some examples of our infamous forefathers, which you can see in our
picture gallery.
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