"Perhaps the most telling comment comes from the pen of English cleric John of Wallingford, prior of..."
Perhaps the most telling comment comes from the pen of English cleric John of Wallingford, prior of St. Fridswides, who complained bitterly that the Viking Age men of the Danelaw combed their hair, took a bath on Saturday, and changed their woolen garments frequently, and that they performed these un-Christian and heathen acts in an attempt to seduce high-born English women1:
It is reported in the chronicle attributed to John of Wallingford that the Danes, thanks to their habit of combing their hair every day, of bathing every Saturday and regularly changing their clothes, were able to undermine the virtue of married women and even seduce the daughters of nobles to be their mistresses2.
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Britons get extremely pissed off about how hygienic vikings were (via toopunktofuck)
This (Vking men seducing Christian women due to their ‘unusual hygiene habits’) is actually a common complaint throughout the early middle ages.
One source ridicules the chewing of mint before speaking to a lady, one about using scent in their beards and hair and even behind their ears, and my favorite source is one that condemns washing of the hands before and after meal time for its ability to woo women.
History cracks me up.
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"Bjorn there is attracting more women! That heathen is cheating! No fair putting more effort into being acceptable, waaaaah!”
Some things never change, sadly. XD
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Is this the medieval equivalent of Nice Guys complaining about how women don’t like their neckbearded and insufficiently-bathed selves and shallowly go for the attractive and well-groomed “jerks?”
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