You know that huge headache you get when scientists turn stuff upside down and you have to get used to it too quickly, like with that Neanderthal thing a few months ago?
Well, get ready for a huge Viking head throb. A Swedish researcher now says the Vikings were better dressers than we once thought, looking downright stylish as they moved eastward with their big cartons of Ikea furniture.
Their clothing, the scientist says, “was designed to be shown off indoors around the fire.” Small point: presumably those would be the same fires they themselves set while pillaging and marauding on their dapper Viking way.
The researcher says the women “dressed provocatively,” which means, ironically, that all those Viking-like barbarian movies from the 1980s seem to have gotten it pretty accurate. Who would have guessed?
(Above: movie poster)
Locals dressed as Vikings with burning replica galley in Lerwick, Shetland. 2004 file photo. REUTERS/ Robert Paterson
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Take THAT, S.C.A!! Hooah!! Hazah!!
- Posted by Lady WeaselOK, think for a minute. You have a scientist talking about fashion. Hello?! It’s like a fashion designer talking about archeology. Wrong vocabulary. “Provocative” to the scientist might simply mean something a little smaller than a blanket, OK?!
Clothing that looks good in firelight?! OK, that could mean anything from tinfoil to bear tusks. Who knows. My dog looks very attractive in firelight - possibly a hottie, according to some poor schmuck scientist who’s been cooped up too long in the lab, know what I mean??!!
- Posted by Dee TFrazetta. Frank Frazetta would have guessed. Casaro’s women do not compare.
- Posted by Shawn Hendricks