Were vikings tall?
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Were vikings tall?
>>58254727
Shorter than average of today.
Probably taller than average back then.
>horns
Muh heritage. Stop it.
the byzantine slut empress wrote about wanting to fuck the tallest viking even
>>58254748
yes, 175 was considered tall / berserker tier
>>58254773
name of slut empress?
>>58254748
>>58254968
>tfw tall as a viking
H-hoorayy
>>58254968
Manlet vikings lmao
>>58254968
i think it's in the alexiad
>>58254989
I know you're baiting like a whore, but >CONSIDERED FOR THAT TIME<
The rest was manlets.
>I have seen the Rus as they came on their merchant journeys and encamped by the Itil. I have never seen more perfect physical specimens, tall as date palms, blond and ruddy; they wear neither tunics nor kaftans, but the men wear a garment which covers one side of the body and leaves a hand free. Each man has an axe, a sword, and a knife, and keeps each by him at all times.
t. Ahmad ibn Fadlan
>>58255027
175 is fucking abysmall for man kek
>>58255038
>the Rus
>Scandinavian
>>58255038
ATTRACTION IS CULTURAL THO
>>58254727
>americans in charge of getting their education from reliable sources
>>58254989
>>58255060
It was the case for must of Europe's history
>The mean stature of adult male Montenegrins reaches the figure of 177 cm., and in some districts it rises to 178 cm. The mean weight of a large series whose average age is 40 years is 160 lbs.; hence they are probably the heaviest as well as the tallest people in Europe, being even heavier than the Irish. Although their legs are very long, their trunks are correspondingly high, and a mean relative sitting height of 52 is at least 4 points higher than that for the long-legged Tuareg, who are the only white people of pure Mediterranean origin to approach them in stature.
That's from 1939
>>58255117
God bless evolution
>>58255096
He is right. Rus was primarily the name of Scandinavian tribe that had conquered Eastern Slavs and then was assimilated by Slavs and left their name to them. It's like Bulgars were Turks who had conquered the area now called Bulgaria inhabited by Slavs, get dissolved in Slavs but left their name to them.
>>58255203
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-gZqGDaYTY
rusbro, is this related?
>>58255156
Not the takeaway from that.
What you should realize is that the shorter people were in total the less the difference in length matters.
Yes even relative difference. Because momentum is a thing.
>>58255038
He wanted the D
The men who went viking were often land-owners and well-to-do free men. They'd have a pretty good diet, with plenty of meat and fresh fish so no manlethood due to malnutrition.
Archaeologists here occasionally find Viking swords in bogs. Judging by their length, the original owners were tall and healthy men.
>>58255449
wouldn't shorter guys longer swords since their reach is shorter
>>58255551
You use a spear if you want reach. A sword has to be a proper length for the wielder if you want to parry properly.
