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watchmojo.com it we’re counting down the
five most interesting facts about
Vikings those Scandinavian trailblazers
that raised havoc over a good part of
the world back in their day
grab your battle axe because things are
about to get Val holic you know exactly
what I mean number five Vikings had a
hand in the slave trade he is worth more
alive to sell us a slave it might not be
a surprise for you to learn that Vikings
were up to all kinds of nasty business
or even slavery for that matter during
their conquest of anglo-saxon Celtic and
Slavic territories Vikings would often
take the survivors in saldaña slaves or
thralls as they called them the captured
would be sold at major slavery markets
around the globe slaves were treated
particularly harsh having little to no
rights in the eyes of their Viking
owners often forced to live as cattle
and subject to sexual exploitation some
scholars go so far as to suggest that
capturing new slaves was the major
motivation behind the raids that Vikings
are so famous for
number four Vikings were very cleanly
that we might have led you astray
without previous entry Vikings weren’t
necessarily the savages that many
portray them as they were actually quite
concerned with their appearances Vikings
had a weekly event dedicated to taking
bats in the hot springs a little
something we now call Saturday
because of this practice the words for
Saturday and Scandinavian languages
roughly equate to washing day what’s
more common hygiene tools such as razors
combs and even tweezers were found in
Viking excavation sites but what might
be most surprising of all is that some
Viking males were so concerned with
attaining beauty that they use some
pretty intense soaps to dye their hair
blonde
so number three Vikings went berserk for
some reason
you’ve probably heard of viking
berserkers frenzied warriors who wore
wolf pelts and were unstoppably fierce
on the battlefield these Warriors were
likened to savage beasts and let out
primal screams when charging into battle
while there are many accounts of them in
historical sources none revealed just
how they became so rapidly bloodthirsty
the most widely held belief is the most
logical namely that they worked
themselves up to a frenzy before battle
as a football team might hype themselves
up before taking to the field on this
team we fight for that inch on this team
we tear ourselves and everyone else
around us to pieces for that inch yeah
another more difficult to prove Theory
has it that they ingested the
psychoactive mushroom Amanita muscaria
putting them in a dissociative state
devoid of fear and compassion
yet another theory is that berserkers
were actually veteran warriors who
channeled their post-traumatic stress
disorders into a blood rage number two
Vikings did not wear horned helmets you
know it was only myth that Viking
helmets had warts on let’s leave this
particular Viking stereotype at the door
or on the Hatrack by the door fill many
depictions of Vikings show them clad in
tough leathers with a horned helmet this
is quite simply not the case the helmets
they did wear were far less goofy and
impractical hence why you never see them
in history’s Viking series it’s believed
that the only similar item would have
been used during religious ceremonies
rather than in the heat of battle
the iconic horned helmets that we’ve all
seen probably come from 19th century
Swedish artist Gustav Malmstrom whose
paintings presented biking’s donning
that headgear the trend was set by other
artists of that period and by the time
vogner’s opera during dis Nibelungen
incorporated the design it was
commonplace it’s awesome man number one
Vikings really got around
we all know that Vikings covered a lot
of ground during their travels but you
might be surprised to hear the scale
archeologists have proven that Vikings
actually reached the Americas way before
Christopher Columbus over 500 years
before in fact this was proven when
remnants of a Viking settlement were
found in Newfoundland Canada they also
ventured a field in the opposite
direction for centuries Vikings
regularly emigrated to Constantinople to
serve as the personal bodyguards for the
Byzantine Emperor a trip that would have
brought them over 2,000 miles over land
excavations at European burial sites
have proved that they had access to
trade networks that reached even farther
artifacts including silk and gold thread
have been discovered that came as far as
the Arabian Peninsula and possibly even
China not too far
not too fun so how do you think
berserkers went berserk and what do you
find most interesting about Vikings
more Shores of Valhalla top tens and
washed weekly top fives be sure to
subscribe to watchmojo.com hey there was
the reason you spent my life maybe it’s
for this
watchmojo.com it we’re counting down the
five most interesting facts about
Vikings those Scandinavian trailblazers
that raised havoc over a good part of
the world back in their day
grab your battle axe because things are
about to get Val holic you know exactly
what I mean number five Vikings had a
hand in the slave trade he is worth more
alive to sell us a slave it might not be
a surprise for you to learn that Vikings
were up to all kinds of nasty business
or even slavery for that matter during
their conquest of anglo-saxon Celtic and
Slavic territories Vikings would often
take the survivors in saldaña slaves or
thralls as they called them the captured
would be sold at major slavery markets
around the globe slaves were treated
particularly harsh having little to no
rights in the eyes of their Viking
owners often forced to live as cattle
and subject to sexual exploitation some
scholars go so far as to suggest that
capturing new slaves was the major
motivation behind the raids that Vikings
are so famous for
number four Vikings were very cleanly
that we might have led you astray
without previous entry Vikings weren’t
necessarily the savages that many
portray them as they were actually quite
concerned with their appearances Vikings
had a weekly event dedicated to taking
bats in the hot springs a little
something we now call Saturday
because of this practice the words for
Saturday and Scandinavian languages
roughly equate to washing day what’s
more common hygiene tools such as razors
combs and even tweezers were found in
Viking excavation sites but what might
be most surprising of all is that some
Viking males were so concerned with
attaining beauty that they use some
pretty intense soaps to dye their hair
blonde
so number three Vikings went berserk for
some reason
you’ve probably heard of viking
berserkers frenzied warriors who wore
wolf pelts and were unstoppably fierce
on the battlefield these Warriors were
likened to savage beasts and let out
primal screams when charging into battle
while there are many accounts of them in
historical sources none revealed just
how they became so rapidly bloodthirsty
the most widely held belief is the most
logical namely that they worked
themselves up to a frenzy before battle
as a football team might hype themselves
up before taking to the field on this
team we fight for that inch on this team
we tear ourselves and everyone else
around us to pieces for that inch yeah
another more difficult to prove Theory
has it that they ingested the
psychoactive mushroom Amanita muscaria
putting them in a dissociative state
devoid of fear and compassion
yet another theory is that berserkers
were actually veteran warriors who
channeled their post-traumatic stress
disorders into a blood rage number two
Vikings did not wear horned helmets you
know it was only myth that Viking
helmets had warts on let’s leave this
particular Viking stereotype at the door
or on the Hatrack by the door fill many
depictions of Vikings show them clad in
tough leathers with a horned helmet this
is quite simply not the case the helmets
they did wear were far less goofy and
impractical hence why you never see them
in history’s Viking series it’s believed
that the only similar item would have
been used during religious ceremonies
rather than in the heat of battle
the iconic horned helmets that we’ve all
seen probably come from 19th century
Swedish artist Gustav Malmstrom whose
paintings presented biking’s donning
that headgear the trend was set by other
artists of that period and by the time
vogner’s opera during dis Nibelungen
incorporated the design it was
commonplace it’s awesome man number one
Vikings really got around
we all know that Vikings covered a lot
of ground during their travels but you
might be surprised to hear the scale
archeologists have proven that Vikings
actually reached the Americas way before
Christopher Columbus over 500 years
before in fact this was proven when
remnants of a Viking settlement were
found in Newfoundland Canada they also
ventured a field in the opposite
direction for centuries Vikings
regularly emigrated to Constantinople to
serve as the personal bodyguards for the
Byzantine Emperor a trip that would have
brought them over 2,000 miles over land
excavations at European burial sites
have proved that they had access to
trade networks that reached even farther
artifacts including silk and gold thread
have been discovered that came as far as
the Arabian Peninsula and possibly even
China not too far
not too fun so how do you think
berserkers went berserk and what do you
find most interesting about Vikings
more Shores of Valhalla top tens and
washed weekly top fives be sure to
subscribe to watchmojo.com hey there was
the reason you spent my life maybe it’s
for this
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