VIKINGS didn't LOOK like this (you've been lied to)

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[ftguy]

You forgot to mention just how strong they were. Always rowing and doing heavy lifting and manual labour

[RickSolid]

My grandfathers best buddy from WW2 was a farmer, guy had hands like granite and stamina for 16 hours of work. Working land makes you tough or dead.

[TripITZ]

"Most Vikings were 5'7 to 5'9"

Thorkell being 7'7: 🗿

[blaxert]

most farmers these days are really strong people, i cant imagine how stronger they where in that time with less tecnology and more manual labor.

[CesarEnjoyer]

5’9 is actually really tall compared to the average height back then

[yogevtmax]

never understood why ppl speak about farmers as is they are weak... its one of the most physical job out there... those fellas are strong trust me

[crywlf]

There’s a preserved skeleton of a Norse raider in a Dublin museum that is 6’3”. That’s right. 6’3” over a thousand years ago is MASSIVE. So some really were giants. I’ve personally seen the skeleton and can only imagine gazing at him during his lifetime

[kylesadirtbag]

Fun fact: most human beings that ever existed were farmers

[niceguy]

They had the ideal body type of their time. Balanced diet, lean but strong, and tall for their time. Alot better than simply being huge.

[MADMAN-bgzj]

5'7 and pillaging villages makes them even more terrifying.

[None-zvqk]

Bro has never met a farmer. 90% of the farmers/farm hands I know are really strong

[Gerolinger]

You know that 5‘9 was really tall back then?

[mailliw]

Average height in those days was about 5'2" so a viking at 5'7" is quite large

[VLFBERHTwolf]

The real Ivar the Boneless was said to fucking tall, thin like a whip, strong like a ox and yet crippled the disease he suffered.
Olaf the Stout was a fat-ass but he and hisen did tear down a bridge in an ancient Rome city of London hence the nursery rhyme "London bridges fall down".

There was a Viking that was present at the Siege of Paris. He was described to be "pale as bone, long hair black a night, his neck could turn like a owls, he tall like tower and he would speak with Ragnar on certain issues (sounds like that seer on Vikings). But why does this guy sounded like a fucking skinwalker or a lich? IDK.

[Question]

"They're just some weak farmers, what could they possibly do?" - Famous last words.

[savvy]

"Being small and mean doesn't make you less of a barbarian"

[Garanon]

Farmers are strong, tough, patient, and don't mind getting their hands dirty or bloody. I can see why hungry Norse farmers would make scary raiders.

[hammerfist]

1) They wore helmets. 2) Many had long shanks (front and side hair long, but cut shorter in the back) so helmets fit better and hair didn't get caught. 3) Spears + shield wall were the primary weapons/strat in large fights. 4) And Bjorn Ironside didn't die by riding shieldless and helmet-less into arrow range of a large army and letting himself get feathered.

[bvici]

Everyone knows a farm boy who never lifted a weight in his life yet is stronger than everyone in the gym. VIKINGS

[SkylerKing]

Vikings were, in fact, giant and muscular by the standards of that day. Most medieval knights, for example, were 5’3” or close to it. These were the finest examples of “manliness” in their countries. Far larger and stronger than the average local citizen. Then, Vikings started showing up. They were 5’9” or more (many Viking skeletons have been dug up that were taller, I read the average height of a Viking was closer to 5’10”) and they were much stronger and more muscular than the knights (given their lifestyle, genetics, rowing their boats on water and actually carrying them over land, etc). This is why nearly any writings from that time that describe the invading Vikings describe them as being “giant”… because compared to everyone else, they were…