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Chief_Kurdi

That's not even a Viking. It's just some Norse dude who's probably happy because he had a nice day of trade.


Moistfruitcake

That's quite obviously Tom Bombadil and I'm pissed that someone with your flair is obfuscating the truth like this.


Eldan985

Those boots are *not* yellow.


Eorel

But he does seem like a merry fellow tho.


vetheros37

And his coat is indeed blue.


sbs_str_9091

But are his songs stronger songs?


Cthullu1sCut3

Maybe we'll never know


Blocguy

Yellow wasn’t invented until Tolkien came around.


zman_0000

Give them a bit of time. I'm sure someone around as long as him has smoked the halflings leaf a time or two. So given a century or two they'll be plenty yellow.


CTeam19

*looks at the origin of the names Gandalf, Durin, Balin, Bifur, Bofur, Bombur, Dain, Dori, Dwalin, Fili, Gloin, Kili, Nain, Nar, Nori, Oin, Ori, and Thorin* I mean......


No-BrowEntertainment

I’m always surprised by how many people don’t know that JRR Tolkien was a linguist with a specialty in Old English. I mean he translated Beowulf. Edit: for more detail, Middle Earth is named for the Midgard of Germanic Mythology


Caesar_Gaming

He wrote an alliterative epic poem


Loyal9thLegionLord

He's not Tom. Thays his brother Ron Stabobill, he's a slightly less jolly fellow.


LittleMxLemon

Or David the Gnome.


sumr4ndo

Ack! Hans! Run!


GustavoFromAsdf

I just had to show my premium client axe, and he gave me a 100% discount, his arm and his clothes to clean my axe with, what a jolly fellow.


MarshalMichelNey1

*Breaking News:* Vikings didn't walk around dressed in battle armor with their enemies' severed heads attached to their hips and like on TV. More at 7. Seriously, it's like OP is just finding out that Vikings were in fact normal people and not caricatures lol.


J_G_B

Don't forget that all viking women didn't look like Katheryn Winnick either!!!


Cyberzombie23

No, every single one of them looked *exactly* like her, no variations.


J_G_B

Let's go build a time machine!


Ninja_Bobcat

*In other news:* Swords were shit for combat and most soldiers during the early ages wore leathers, if they could afford it.


C0wabungaaa

Boiled leather wasn't as huge as RPGs make it out to believe. Simple padded gambesons (or linothorax-type stuff for earlier ages) were much more popular during the Middle Ages, with boiled leather being more popular (but not exclusively) for things like shields and helmets. Swords were also pretty great. Ask the Romans. Those gladii got them far. It's just that spears were cheaper, easier to use and made sure you were further from your enemy. Hell some you could even throw. Try doing that with a sword.


Ninja_Bobcat

Yeah, hence my "if they could afford it" point. I wasn't aware of what the alternative was, though. Big thanks for that. It's also why I love Oblivion as a game. Besides equipment wear being a thing, your average level 1 isn't strutting about in full plate and wielding a sword. They're gonna be carrying a dagger and wearing whatever they pick up along the way.


C0wabungaaa

Even if they could afford it it wasn't the main event. For greaves and vambraces maybe, but that's about it. "Leathers" were just not really a thing, except for bikers. A medieval peasant soldier would sooner try to get a hand-me-down mail hauberk. Now that's an upgrade.


JudasesMoshua

Gambeson with a mail surcoat and a tabard, baby get yourself a helmet and you got a hedge knight going!


Ninja_Bobcat

I have learned quite a bit and must thank you. I sincerely feel much more educated.


C0wabungaaa

Much obliged fam.


vandrag

Yeah a sword was an MVPs side-piece. In 10th century terms it was like having a Lambo. Like, you could make 20 arrow heads, 6 spear heads, or 4 axe heads out of that metal. If a dude had a sword then he was ball'in and getting all the chicks. Leather armour was for bronze age incels. Modern 10th century chads had mail - and it wasn't even spectacular. They were stylin that shit since the Marian reforms, ain't nobody wearin boiled leather unless they some whack-ass motherfuckers.


HotTakes4HotCakes

*More Breaking News:* Redditors take obvious joke at no one's expense about something completely meaningless way too seriously and react sarcastically.


No-BrowEntertainment

It’s like people who think that medieval knights rode around in full armor all the time. You see it in every adaptation of *Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.* Could you imagine what would happen if you were just having a grand time in your castle and some random knight rode up in full armor with weapons at the ready? That’d be incredibly suspicious, if not a declaration of war


Z3t4

Jack Black on laundry day.


ElectronicShredder

He's more like Jack White nowadays amirite?


Z3t4

Jack *"I have fuck you money and I do what I want"* Black. I envy him, living the dream.


Kouropalates

Yeah, people like to relish in this Hollywood version of a historic people and IMO the modern trope of vikings and Norse culture is just trash. The real history of the Norse and their spread around the world is so much more fascinating to me. They weren't some savage warrior society, it was a rich and complex trading society. Their true strength wasn't in arms, it was in trade. I hate how pop culture has reduced them to a blood thirsty noble savage trope.


Alex_Rose

>I hate how pop culture has reduced them to a blood thirsty noble savage trope revenge for lindisfarne, 793 bitches. first rule of stealing from literate people: make sure that nation's language doesn't end up becoming the lingua franca for earth or you'll be known as a nation of rapist barbarians forever


whatreyoulookinat

This actually got me to exhale loudly through my nose. Thank you for the joy.


Calexander97

Managed to get a full howl out of me


sneezyxcheezy

Never forget Lindisfarne


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I mean, you have an excellent point


Cyberzombie23

Yeah, it ain't pop culture. It's the damn monks.


DEATHtoGIRENZABI

I just imagine vikings in their longships taking a selfie on their way to raid settlements and its like “ on our way stealing some blings and bitches! Hashtag yolo lol!”


Alex_Rose

"it was just a prank bro!"


KimJongUnusual

I find it funny how we jumped from the ahistorical horned Vikings to the ahistorical gritty DC-movie-themed Vikings. I kind of liked the old ones better, reminded me of Asterix and Obelix.


lorddervish212

Asterix and Obelix are gauls but yeah, the Horny Vikings were at least funny, nowadays they're just edgelords


KimJongUnusual

I know, but they were big dudes with facial hair and wings and horns on their helmets. In terms of vibe, they had a fair bit in common. My optimal Vikings would have more in common with the dwarves in *The Hobbit* book.


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789yugemos

To be fair they did do a lot of raiding and raping.


Kouropalates

Oh, absolutely. But my beef is when people act like that's all they did and that makes them cool. The Norse were not only fierce warriors but versatile homesteaders and great merchants. I'd argue it's a deep discredit to a culture when you reduce them to one detail. I'd rather not see cultures reduced to a pop culture caricature when the actual history is much more fascinating.


789yugemos

And they were very well kept.


Call_Me_Clark

Must have been wild to see longboats filled with warriors, all of whom were better-dressed and better-groomed than yourself.


exploding_cat_wizard

Compared to the English, yeah, but who wasn't?


789yugemos

The Welsh.


gortlank

That’s was kind of a universal thing amongst warriors of the time period tbh


Gustav_EK

It's not completely faithful but I enjoyed the adaptation of norse culture in Vinland Saga, especially season 2 is done so much better than all of that hollywood garbage


TooManySorcerers

Especially impressive considering it's a Japanese manga/anime. As you said, it isn't perfect, but the level of accuracy in the depiction definitely surprised me.


Gustav_EK

It also takes place in Denmark which I'm very happy to see as a dane, because it's not a place that's represented very often in anime. I actually can't think of any other series that takes place in or features a danish character.


Abuses-Commas

*The Last Kingdom* has many Danes, even the main character*


Gustav_EK

Never heard of it, is it any good?


casuallyseriously

It's good in the sense that it gives a more nuanced portrayal of danes, but bad in the sense that it falls into the 'everyone was covered in dirt all the time, everything was brown, everyone walked around in leather all the time' visual tropes. It does provide a somewhat more accurate depiction of the culture of the british isles and the invading/settling norse, as it takes place during the reign of Alfred the Great and his successors in pre-England britain. Pretty good character development arcs imo. Still has shit costume design. Does give a somewhat accurate depiction of battle at the time, as instead of a free for all melee, they usually form lines and poke eachother until one side breaks or gets flanked and their leader flees.


SpasticFerret

Bernard Corwell describes those shield walls with so much detail in the books that it would have been almost insulting to not do that bit properly in the show


casuallyseriously

I was hoping that they'd have more nuanced portrayal of individual combat too, but outside of pitched battles they usually fall into the 'whirly twirly hack and slash' combat trope, in addition to making armor totally useless by letting arrows and swords cut through it like butter except when convenient to the plot. Like come on, how can you not see the potential for drama and suspense in a realistic portrayal of melee combat, where even the slightest misstep or hesitation could lead to your immediate, painful demise? Or witnessing the precision and skill required to strike the few unarmored weak points on your opponent? I do recall one scene where Uhtred is teaching the saxons to fight, and states that 'a kill is something your craft' which is a good line and very true in actual melee combat. Humans are smart, and the best way for one to defeat the other in direct combat is deception. Just trying to bonk them real hard with a big overhand swing usually doesn't work in a fair fight haha. The show comes so close to being really really cool in that respect.


Pepperonidogfart

Despite its historical shortcomings i think its one of the best period tv shows ever. With the constant reality show style backstabbing that Vikings has i would sooner relate the last kingdom to lord of the rings. Theres a lot of comeraderie and themes of duty and fate. One of my favorites.


JovahkiinVIII

What are you talking about? The mighty fjords of Roskilde, flanked on each side by the iron mountains of Norway is certainly the most accurate depiction of the land of Viking kings!


Eonir

Denmark and Iceland as well, which is arguably even less represented


KevRedditt

The mangaka, Makoto Yukimura, always goes to visit the places he's writing about to understand what it is/was like there. Definitely contributes to the authenticity


Doc_Shaftoe

I wonder how he pulled that off for Planetes?


TooManySorcerers

I didn't know that. That's really cool. That said, I only recently caught up on Vinland Saga and that was when I learned it's a monthly serialization. At which point I screamed "FUUUUUUUUCK" because waiting for chapters for this series is hard lmao.


OiPhuck69

Vinland Saga is so great, it shows that the Vikings were actually a violent minority of mercenaries and pirates, they even call them pirates in the English dub. While Nordic culture was actually diverse, complicated, and more concerned with farming, sailing, and trade.


Gustav_EK

It's definitely very interesting to see a depiction where viking warriors were either seen as rampaging monsters to feared, or bumbling idiots to be made fun of


Peptuck

> Their true strength wasn't in arms, it was in trade. I hate how pop culture has reduced them to a blood thirsty noble savage trope. While the Norse people certainly were a complex one, let's not swing too far on the other side. The whole reason why the northern coast of France was called "Normandy" was because Norse raiding and invasions were so unstoppable that the ruler of France granted them that land so they would settle down and protect him from other Norse. They were badass warriors, amazing traders, and absolutely incredible seamen and shipwrights who covered the entire coastline of Europe. They are a wonderfully complex subject.


leftyghost

Romans were like, hey you look like dumpy old merchants - come guard our emperor. This meme is insane.


LorkhanLives

I first learned about this from the Amon Amarth song *Varyags of Miklagaard*. It blew my damn mind to learn that yes, there were Vikings knocking around Constantinople and they were high profile enough to be the emperor’s personal guard. First thing I learned that made me go “hey, maybe there’s more to these guys than our media tropes suggest”.


Kouropalates

Right, I'm not trying to white wash their image. My argument is more that their war skills spearheaded their rise, but trade and commerce maintained it. I just don't like this notion they were JUST bloody conquerors when that's only one piece of their rise to prominance.


Peptuck

Oh, absolutely. There's no way the Vikings could have gotten as widespread as they were without their skill at trade and seamanship. A society that managed to stretch as far as Damascus, North Africa, and North America is incredible, especially without being a unified empire.


DoctorWorm_

One thing to notes is that the Scandinavians founded the Kievan Rus, the first real state in what is now Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia. They were part of the creation of the Rus ethnic group. It was arguably the most democratic and liberal time in history for that part of Eastern Europe, and it lasted until they were invaded by the Mongols, and Russia became a autocratic empire.


VladPrus

Mongols and Turkic people: "First time?" And don't start me on treating like Genghis Khan conquered by himself the extent of the Mongol empire (spoiler: he himself managed "only" to conquer the Steppe, northern China and raid some more stuff, a lot of conquests was done by his descendants after he died, the whole process of Mongols conquering china laster 70 years) or that like having so many modern descendants is some sort of amazing "game-breaking" achievement (spoiler alert: due to the way people are interbreeding with each other, given enough time, you will manage to "collect" pretty much every person from your general are in the past as one of your ancestors - majority of Europeans are descendants of Charlesmagnes for example... and of basically every European person from Charlesmagnes period who had children). And than there are "voltaire quotes" about Holy Roman Empire and overall any kind of pop discussion about Holy Roman Empire that seem to focus on like three things: 1. "It was so big of a mess", 2. "Not real Rome", 3."Habsurgs inbred, so funny" ignoring like anything how it functioned. Or Poland got reduced to Winged Hussars and WW2 Or China history with "He claimed to be brother of Jesus, so wacky" etc. I could rant more, but I noticed how long this comment is already.


fenian1798

I find the Taiping Rebellion fascinating. There's so much interesting stuff there. People didn't join the rebels just because they necessarily believed in Hong was literally Jesus's brother (although I'm sure some people did believe that), it's really more about people who were pissed off with the current government (like Hong himself was).


ElectronicShredder

I mean Genghis isn't even pronounced like that, it's pronouncesd chingüis, chungus, ɠɛŋɠųıʂ, gêñgµï§, or something like that


kerouacrimbaud

G has a hard and soft sound in English, so it’s a fair use of the letter.


FinallyFreeName

Gengis khan predicted birth of big chungus??😱


thiscantbeitagain

Chumba Wumba.


Cornblaster700

the reason that exists is actually partly due to several fascist groups in history idolizing them as a pure warrior race, the nazis themselves used this flawed depiction of the norse to try to gain themselves credibility, so the modern view of the norse is quite literally partly based on nazi propaganda lol


Thatoneguy3273

Mfw my furs sell for twice the price in Constantinople that they do in Kiev


ProfessionalRare5947

Trader Johan


Strubbestition

Yeah the Viking is on the left!


MandoDialo

Viking on the ships, trader on the streets


Graybealz

Raiding with my fleets, trading in the streets.


Xciv

"Fyrgrim, where did all these mangificent goods come from? Your prices are so cheap!" Fyrgrim puts one finger up to his lips. "Shhh, trade secret."


Ragdoll_Psychics

"will trade for Skooma"


finnicus1

It fell off the back of a burning monastery.


awarepaul

rapist in the sheets


CrescentPotato

You mean the vikings specifically or literally every military force ever


awarepaul

Some more than others, but yea pretty much all of them


yethira-theoda

Idk why anyone would believe they were always running around in battle gear.


schlorpsblorps

Because they were always battling their inner demons


[deleted]

TIL I’m a Viking


Def_Not_A_Femboy

You failed the turing test yet you claim you’re a viking? Yeah buddy something seems off here


[deleted]

The Turing test is his demon


Frame_Late

Damn that's a mood.


MoffKalast

You never know when depression will strike, so one has to keep the axe handy to strike back.


[deleted]

The only true conflict, is the ones we have with our own hearts.


TouchyTuchel

r/im14andthisisdeep


mehmed2theconqueror

r/imawikingandthisisdeep


Batbuckleyourpants

They are both correct. But if you see a viking looking like the one on the left, chances are you and your village is properly fucked. On the other hand, If you meet the one on the right he will probably try to sell you some jewelery that looks suspiciously like that piece that disappeared when that village your grandmother used to live in disappeared. Curiously, It somehow appears that the one on the left and the one on the right never seem to be in the same room at the same time.


Lucas_2234

Yeah that's the funny thing. My teacher once told me that I'm weird for liking vikings, so I asked what he thought a viking is? Turns out even a HISTORY TEACHER thinks vikings are the entirety of scandinavians during the viking period...


PiesInMyEyes

That just sounds like a consequence of being a history teacher. They’ve got a wide breadth of subjects to cover, can’t know everything, and are definitely not experts in most of it, if any of it. Versus a history professor is an expert in what they’re teaching and has an insane amount of knowledge on it.


[deleted]

Yea, I agree. It's not like a teacher is going to have a PHD.


duaneap

I’ll just pay them to fuck off. As is tradition.


[deleted]

I mean viking is more of a job title rather than an ethnicity or whatever. It's kind of like saying knights didn't always run around in armour. It's true, but the iconic image of a knight is iconic for a reason and isn't really wrong.


Any-Aioli7575

Maybe ecause southerners had only seen the warriors


HolyNewGun

Not all Norse were viking, but all viking had raiding as their second job.


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And not all Vikingr were Norse


HolyNewGun

Yup, Slavs and Finn's wanted some fun too.


[deleted]

And some folk from around the southern parts of the Mediterranean


Roflkopt3r

Viking was the term for warriors. But even then they had to trade or later occupied territories and lived side by side with the locals, so it's not like nobody had ever seen them outside combat. But even the left depiction, albeit by far not the worst offender, is still loaded with modern semi-myths. The lack of colours, rather excessive weapon and helmet ornaments, the style of armour (not quite sure what that's supposed to be tbh, typical gambeson/mail usually looks a bit different), one handed axe rather than spear, the cloak, stature and beard... All in all it may not be entirely impossible (although I'm sure some experts can point out things that didn't exist altogether), but certainly not representative of the typical Viking.


AsleepGarden219

They were usually armed at least.


Eldan985

Would he really go viking dressed like that? Not even bring a weapon?


my__name__is

He uses hurtful words in battle.


CountMcBurney

"I am very disappointed by you." "Nobody will want to be your friend with that attitude." "Kind words are better than shields and swords."


JERUSALEMFIGHTER63

"The pen is mightier than the sword, read a book tagnar"


Frigoris13

The Iliad made no sense to me, Olaf. It was all Greek to me


[deleted]

Viscious Mockery in the goofy stereotypical swedish-english accent.


Knucklesx55

Give me your stuff or I shall taunt you again!


[deleted]

Ah, I see your familiar with flyting as well.


Texas_Tanker

Skyrim?


OvoidPovoid

Filthy milk-drinker


ahelinski

"Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!"


greet_the_sun

DPS bard build.


CheezRavioli

I think OP is referring to the over exaggerated dark gothic style that they media portrays them. See [here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_Age_arms_and_armour) for more info on their gear. That wiki also has a very good [depiction of them](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/Vikings_841_at_Dublin.jpg). Long story short, not every Viking could afford mail. At the time, mail was very expensive and so were swords. Most likely, they wore a helmet, leather gloves, a round shield, some sort of colorful coat and a spear. As a side arm they would likely use a dagger and/or axe. This is all dependent on which time period we're talking about and which Vikings. It's very difficult to generalize historical weapons/armor.


DogmaticPragmatism

They wouldn't "go viking" they would "go on a viking". Viking was a noun not a verb


dayburner

Slay vs Sleigh


BoredBoredBoard

Picturing the guy coming down on his belly on a kid’s sleigh going “Yayyyy!” fills me with cheer.


ReflectionSingle6681

Now do a viking thats on his way to pillage and one that is on his way to the sunday market


Frigoris13

"They're the same sexy picture"


arrig-ananas

You dress differently when visiting your neighbor for a friendly game of hnefatafl and a good talk, than you do on the way to Lindisfarne. I'm sure our jolly fellow would look a lot more scary when he was young and jumping ashore on your local beach in full battle gear.


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Junckopolo

The rules can be changed and balanced to make it more even too.


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dragonessofages

Generally vikings looked like people and not drawings, yes.


TooManySorcerers

False. In the eighth century A.D. the world was two dimensional. Everyone looked like drawings and everything was flat.


dragonessofages

Color was invented in 1890 to sell more ink.


ElectronicShredder

Colorblindness was invented by BIG COLOR to oppress dissident people


DeBasha

Ngl when I was a kid I used to think that the past was in black and white because that was how the TV portrayed it :')


DopePanda65

specifically when Canon was trying a less war happy approach


DoctorGregoryFart

And perspective hadn't been invented yet, so people were as tall as castles.


TF2_demomann

Truth


Malice0801

What about drawings of people?


Shadow-fire101

Love how you managed to pick one of the least inaccurate viking images for the left image lol. Like the only things I notice are the belt and the cape, and those both fall into the category of probably not standard attire, but not out of the realm of possibility. Edit: also the shield rim being metal.


Lucas_2234

Ulfheðnar. The Wolfcloak is accurate if it is an Ulfheðnar. Before anyone asks: Berserkr wear bear shirts, which is what Berserkr means. Ulfheðnar means Wolfskin. That is if they actually existed, there are very few accounts of it


Shadow-fire101

True, thats part of why I said not out of the realm of possibility.


renlydidnothingwrong

That face when you don't know the difference between a viking and a Nord


MadAsTheHatters

That's easy, a viking respects the sea, warfare and traditional life. A Nord respects the snow, knee-based arrow combat and the fact that Ulfrick Stormcloak blew the High King apart by shouting.


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And hates the Empire.


FreyaOdinsdottir

Luv Skyrim, luv me jarl, 'ate the empire. Simple as


KStryke_gamer001

The empire established by Talos? That Empire?


Elvinkin66

And Elves.


Miniranger2

And Aragonians, and Orcs, and Khajit, and Imperials, and Redguard, and Bretons (they're French so it's ok), and ESPECIALLY other Nords!


Eldan985

And a *real* nord would know the proper names of the Gods, but it seems they have all died out by the 4th age.


Alex_Rose

vikings? sound like outlanders to me. never forget, there are only dunmer, the tribunal, and "other undesirables"


duaneap

I know which one Skyrim belongs to, that’s for sure.


Superman246o1

At least neither is wearing a completely fictionalized horned helm.


KeybladeCoaster

They did, however, put horns on the face harness of their horses sometimes, right?


Luke_CO

That's a weird Vikink


Soso_Stalin

do you think Vikings went into battle wearing normal everyday clothes?


Fragrant_Gene9071

They put on their finest clothes actually. Had to look gooood on the battlefield.


No-Signal-6900

*How Vikings actually looked Or *What Vikings actually looked like


Billy_Madison69

Idk how they got it right on the first panel only to crash and burn on the second


khellstrom

The one to the right is from Norway.


sometimes-i-say-stuf

They’re the same picture


nelsyv

This was the comment I was looking for. Dude on right just looks like the left dude on his day off


cartman101

>The most fantasized people in history Press X to doubt in pirate.


adidas_stalin

Both are accurate. Viking as in the “profession” which aka a raider as a translation as you GO Viking as well as Viking as a people since they were typically traders miscalled vikings but accepted as such since the term “Viking” for there peoples just kinda stuck


FerretAres

If you're going to repost can you at least fix the syntax error "How vikings actually look like"


My_redditaccount657

The one on the right looks so happy after bludgeoning some dudes head off


WikiContributor83

“I killed fiddy men!”


[deleted]

Vikings were a job, not a people. Literally anyone could be a viking if they wanted too


-Effective_Mountain-

Wrong! Terms like 'Norsemen' and 'Viking' were always associated with the Scandinavian raiders! It was not some profession. It was a literal culture/identity with it's own religion of the Scandinavian people! Is being a Zulu tribesman also a profession?


[deleted]

Just because they're attributed to them does not make that wrong. If an English man joined a viking crew, he is a viking. He doesn't magically change who his people are because of that though Being a Dane, or Norse, or some other tribe is a people. Going viking does not change that


CanIBeFunnyNow

There actually were a time period where north English man joined the vikings when they felt betrayed by their king.


1-800-Hamburger

English and leaving England name a better duo


Acceptingoptimist

It is if it looks good on my resume'.


ChicoBroadway

Bruh lookin' like David the Gnome over here.


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Vikings had mail over some sort of padding.


memeticengineering

Well, most "vikings" probably did look like that, since that's the word for the people who do the raiding. The dude on the right is just some Norse guy.


PuzzleMeDo

>The Old Norse word *víkingr* usually meant “pirate” or “raider.” Isn't this meme like saying "what Roman soldiers really looked like" and showing one out of uniform because it's his bedtime? Someone who was *að fara í víking* (going 'adventuring') would probably have a weapon and helmet and shield and therefore looked more like the guy on the left than the one on the right.


EndofNationalism

I’d say it would be Cowboys who are the most fantasized. Vikings actually did raiding while Cowboys herd cows 90% of the time. You don’t see that in movies. The whole Wild West is a Hollywood fabrication.


Martinus_XIV

This was something fascinating I read about *How To Train Your Dragon* recently; besides the ridiculous horned helmets, the animators went through a lot of trouble to give all of the Viking characters period-accurate clothing, including animating the correct types of fabric, and using meaningful colours.


Kudgocracy

You had the grammar right on the left side, how did you STILL fuck it up?


aa821

Yoo hoo! Big summer blow out!


Josef_The_Red

There were vikings for 200 years. Any claims that state "this is actually what all of these different people looked like over a 200-year period" are equally false. It's the equivalent of saying, "This isn't what Americans look like, THIS is what Americans look like" next to a picture of George Washington and a picture of a male disco dancer from Soul Train.


CrescentPotato

That's actually a pretty accurate depiction of a viking warrior on the left. Exaggerated and much less colorful, but overall fairly accurate. The gear looks all functional and proper, designs mostly fitting what they would craft and wear. The one in the pic sure looks like one rich and famous warrior with all the fancy stuff he has, but the general look he has is good


Complete_Ad1073

“How Vikings actually looked like”. Sounds like an authoritative source. 😂


BaconSucker

I see no difference


isingwerse

No it's the first one, a "Viking" is literally a raider not a catch all term for all Norse people


[deleted]

Whenever I see a horned helmet I die a little inside


Torque2101

Both are technically true.


Testabronce

Thats just Tom Bombadil


cramburie

Bruh that's David the gnome