The Discoveries That Proved Everything Wrong About the Vikings

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  @johnlumsden9102 · 5 months ago

  Fun fact: Bluetooth technology is named after harold Bluetooth as an analogy to how Harold united his kingdom. <br>The symbol is a runic H and B put together.

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• IL

  @ilikegliding · 5 months ago

  Trial by ordeal in Danish regions also included having to walk barefoot over a carpet with small lego pieces scattered &nbsp;about.

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• MI

  @missbirch3440 · 5 months ago

  I live 5 km from the &quot;Harald Bluetooth&quot; rune stone in central Jutland 🥳👍<br><br>But you forgot the LANGUAGE! The impact of the old Danish language in English, and therefore &apos;merican.

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• DR

  @Dragnfly_mynamewastaken · 5 months ago

  back in elementary school, when we were learning about vikings and how they had different gods, some kid mentioned about how they couldn&apos;t be <b>just</b> warriors because they had gods for everything else too. They wouldn&apos;t have gods of stuff that weren&apos;t part of their daily lives.

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• MR

  @MrChadbag · 5 months ago

  I’m pretty sure Erik the Red, “discoverer” of Greenland, was outlawed (or his father was) and left Norway and went to Iceland, and got outlawed there, and left to Greenland. &nbsp; Because his “exile” from Iceland was described as 3 years, it probably was the “lesser outlawry”

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• CR

  @Craider79 · 5 months ago

  Things - Ting - Folketing = the modern word we use in Denmark literally meaning &quot;The Peoples Thing/Ting&quot; aka &quot;The Peoples Parliament&quot;

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• WI

  @WillLN · 5 months ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DelLncsB4KI&amp;t=1224">20:24</a> That&apos;s where the wireless transmitter Bluetooth gets its name

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• JU

  @JunNights · 2 days ago

  In terms of cleanliness; our &apos;lørdag&apos; (saturday) is really &apos;laugadag&apos; or bathing day. So... Vikings usually bathed at least once a week.

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• GO

  @GodPikachu · 5 months ago

  a lot of these traditions also bled over into saxon and celt society as well.

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• AZ

  @Azphreal · 5 months ago (edited)

  The Arabic explorer mentioned was Ahmad ibn Fadlan who also said they were &apos;painted&apos; from head to toe making many think they had tattoos but there is no other mention of tattoos in any other sources. John of Wallingford is the one who complained that the Viking men were attracting Saxon women and i would have thought that if they were tattoed he would have mentioned then being covered in &apos;Pagan&apos; symbols. We still have Weregild in the form of compensation, body parts had a certain amount they were worth as well.

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• NU

  @Nugatron50000 · 5 months ago

  Kinda coincides with modern nordic cleanliness too.

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• NE

  @neonity4294 · 5 months ago

  In Hedeby they also found a lot of forgeries - stuff which was more or less obviously not original. Ceramics, glass even jewelry from different european cultures at that time. It was not only an important trading hub, but also an early medieval Temu.

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