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How did vikings look like?
How big they actually were?
>>424052
>How did vikings look like?
Pale skinned, light complexions, generally tall as most Northern Europeans are compared to Celtic and other Indo-Europeans in Europe.
>How big they actually were?
Probably the same size and height in general as their Germanic predecessors like the Goths, Vandals, and so on that fought the Romans centuries before.
>>424052
According to the middle eastern explorere Ahmad Ibn Fadlan they were "As tall as Date trees"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_ibn_Fadlan
>The Rūs appear as traders who set up shop on the river banks nearby the Bolğar camp. They are described as having bodies tall as (date) palm-trees, with blond hair and ruddy skin. They are tattooed from "fingernails to neck" with dark blue or dark green "tree patterns" and other "figures" and that all men are armed with an axe, sword and long knife.
Hear he is referring to Varangian conquerors in Russia from Scandinavia
Vikings were manlets
aside from blonde hair, beards etc they liked blue and red clothes so this grimdark black leather bullshit is bullshit
>>424052
Roughly 1.70m
They liked dyed clothes over all, and wore large tunics that went down to their thighs.
>>424052
>>424052
Alpha as fuck
>>425449
>vikings live in an area where they can't grow crops worth shit
>raid to raise money for trading
>eventually move from raiding to focusing more on industry for trading
>colonize to many different areas, open up vast trade networks, and explore north america long before any other europeans, and eventually become a well educated and cultured part of europe, all in a few centuries
>nigs still wallowing in mud huts for millenniums
>>424052
The average height was 180 cm which was fairly tall at the time when continental knights were 165 cm in the median. It helped that Vikings had a large protein diet of meat and dairy which fueled size and strength.
>>425482
Only difference is that Viking became the hugely successful Scandinavian. Nigger still do it.
>>425503
Yeah so successful they're getting cucked into the stone age by muslims and africans.
>>424052
Vikings aren't as good as everyone thinks they are.
They were in fact little bitches who raided poor undefended waterside villages and then ran off when the lord came riding out to get them.
>>426632
Look at this kid and his original opinion folks!
While vikings are nowhere near the level of notoriety and class vikingaboos chant them to be, this new /pol/ meme about vikings being aryan nig nogs has about the same amount of truth to it. They weren't bad ass Nordic pirates and conquerers, nor were they are bunch of frozen nig nogs that contributed nothing to civilization. They were a struggling society that adapted and assimilated to survive.
>>426632
Are you a daft idiot? If you can get what you need by raiding a small undefended village, why wouldn't you?
There is no honor code dictating a necessary encounter with your enemy.
>>426789
>implying no viking returned home
>>426805
>Implying they would have reason to, after taking Normandy
>>425449
>one is a modern reconstruction of an ancient norse village
>one is modern day Africa
how is this not proving the point that dindus are subhuman monkeys?
>>424101
>The Rūs appear as ...
he speaks of Russians not Vikings, or are you one of those german fagboys that spread that Russians were viking-rapebabies meme?
>>424052
>>425488
>>425329
http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/vikheight.shtml
The average height of norsemen were around 171-172 of the times. This is measured from skeletons. Skeletal remains can also tell us a bit about their diet and they generally ate more fish than the average european which many think contributed to their increased height. I forgot the average height of the average european at the time but vikings had amongst the most protein rich diets on the continent.
>>426813
the ones who took normandy wasnt the only vikings ever, neither were the ones who colonized north england, gardariki or the hebrides.
it was pretty common for young men to sail out of home, get a fortune via trade or plunder, and then returning home to live a wealthier life than before
>>425449
>>426901
you cant deny that at that time, their was a considerable viking society, the "rus", living beside the native slavic people.
the name russia comes from these "rus", a norse tribe, who get their name from the nordic word for row.
and even the rurikids were tracing their lineage back to a norse chieftain.
>>427064
>shit that germans believe in
We can shill normanist crap here, since most of you are westerners. But the Russians have nothing to do with the Varyags or the invented "Rus' people of Scandinavia" by Nestor (antagonist of Monomakh and propagitor of Normanist Svyatopolk). There are multiple meanings to Rus, one most widely accepted is the one that it means light-haired and its meaning noted in the languages of other Slavs like Czechs, Serbs, Poles, also Kiev was founded by the Russian people way before any notation of Varyags and Rurikids.
>>426901
Sweden used to rule the land areas of which Russia originated. It was called Svitjod and you can look it up yourself.
>>427064
>Slavic people
>native
"No."
>>426887
But anon this is also modern-day Africa.
Africa is a big place.
>>427272
>Russia originating in Sweden
the fuck are you guys smoking?
>>426789
That's a meme. Besides the genetically difference wouldn't be great enough to make a difference, the Viking raiders were a small part of the population to begin with.
>>427304
Jesus Christ man. The land area called Rus, which originally was called Svitjod, was under Swedish rule during the viking age. This was before the Grand duchy of Moscow.
>>424052
A short viking was around 8 feet and 9 inches they looked like a cross between bears and aryans with a bit of gorilla mixed in
Fun fact the only way Vikings could breed was through plundering a settlement and then boom 8 weeks later you hade a entire snekkja filled with new Vikings at the closest beach
>>427304
Look up which dynasty ruled Kievan Rus and who was their progenitor.
>>427360
>Look up which dynasty ruled Kievan Rus and who was their progenitor.
By that logic, every nation belongs to those people which families ethnicity is same as their own. Russians are Germans, Brits are Germans, French are Germanic to say the least, Bulgarians are turkic Tatars, Spanish are German, etc.
bullshit. also the region was never called Rus, it was called Svitjod, Nestor invented a "Rus people that came from Svitjod", but that is an invention, not a historical fact supported by ANY evidence whatsoever. People today invent they come from the moon, some 1000 years after some anon will read that shit and spill the same crap you spill now thinking it is true because some idiot wrote it 1000 years ago.
>>427183
this isnt shit only germans believe in, its a historic fact, look up the history of nowgorod and kiev.
kiev might be founded by slavic people, but that doesnt change the fact that it was conquered by rurikids (descendants of varangian chieftain rurik) and ruled by them for centuries.
you can doubt the cultural influence of the varangians, but you cant deny that they were there, as leading political figures.
besides, nestors "pro normanist" chronicles are one of the most reliable sources of that time.
also, monomakh himself was a rurikid, and thus a descendant of varangians. that was his sole legitimation to rule, so i dont see your point.
>>427183
I grew up in a Slavic country and we learn that the original Russians were Vikings in school.
>>427420
>I grew up in a slavic country
If it is in the butthurt belt it has no validity. If you grew up in Russia and they teach that crap in their school, then please post a source.
>>427420
And original vikings were tribes that originated from Russia.
There is a theory that Odin was actually the chief of a slavic tribe.
I'm from Norway btw and that theory is from Thor Heyerdahl, a Norwegian explorer.
>>427397
>Nestor invented a "Rus people that came from Svitjod"
>not a historical fact supported by ANY evidence whatsoever
nestor didnt invented shit, there is archaeological evidence for scandinavians since at least 750
is there any evidence for their absence besides your hurt slavic pride? because i cant see anything but your persistent denial without any reasonable arguments.
>>427426
>butthurt belt
What does this mean?
>>427441
butthurt belt
>former austro-slavs that after liberating themselves from the communist yolk became pro-german/american to the point of actively supporting their propaganda, rewritting history, reinventing own ethnical origins to have positive traits, while inventing those of their eastern neighbours to have negative ones or those that suit their interpretations. common crap happening in eastern europe since the 60's. Most dominant in the butthurt belt today is Poland, most influential was Croatia, with their pro-germanic policies, slav-shaming, WW2 collaborations with the nazis. Newcomer to the belt is western Ukraine that was also once under Austro-Hungarian occupation.
Although most of the nations in the butthurt belt are catholic Austro-Slavs, Balts and Hungary being a minority, Slovakia however does not belong into that belt.
>>427397
>Russians are Germans, Brits are Germans, French are Germanic to say the least
yeah, they share common cultural ancestors, that doesnt mean they cant build their own, seperate national/cultural identity over time.
i really dont get why you are so butthurt about this.
>>427441
It's what Russians call the countries that they ruined
>>427470
So basically countries that hate Russia? Slovakia definitely belongs on that list then.
>>427470
Essentially you're saying that every source coming outside of Russia should be discarded.
everyone knows vikings were 9 foot tall beasts who rode the water into the anglo saxon lands, and then burned everything with their pagan filth and raped our women.
