Viking Clothes - What did the Vikings wear?
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- Опубліковано 28 кві 2018
- How do we know which clothes the Vikings wore and from where do we have this knowledge from? That is the question that I intend to answer today. Fashion is not a new thing, people have for thousands of years dressed themselves in the best clothes they could afford.
What did the Vikings look like in the Viking age?
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Worth to note. Wool is a fantastic material, that accually keep you warm even if it is wet.
And linnen is cool to touch in warm weather and warm when it is cold (as wool is to accually) just as fabric made of silk.
I find natural fiber being the most practical and best in all weather conditions.
How ever sometimes you do need to wear multiple layers to keep warm.
I found our modern clothes simply boring. This is beautiful.
Lmao okay
Explains why I don't give a damn about earrings, but do like rings and necklaces. Also for the clothing, I prefer it to be functional above fashionable.
Viking clothing was warm especially in winter, dressing in layers as well as keeping the core of the body the warmest, not to mention made from wool
I love this! U should make a comparison to the viking TV series, I am so annoyed by how inaccurate they are, specifically with clothing
This!! I was actually super disappointed when I digged more into how the norse actually dressed, because the costumes in the series look incredibly cool...I wonder how inventive the real people actually got when they had the money to play around a bit.
most likely a lot of expensive cloths, like capes and expensive colors, the rich had also beautiful jewlery like broches holding their clothes up.
Rich warriors usually had havy armor, like chainmail and a helmet.
A very cool/good norwegian viking movie is caled 'Birkebeinerne' or 'The last king' in english. It's about the two Birkebein-vikingwarriors that needs to save the son of their dead king from being killed, and secure the Royal line in Norway. Based on a true happenings, very famous story in Norway.
Involves a lot of skiing
MarkFilipAnthony helmets in early Viking era is not so likely
Clothing is the least of your worries. Lagertha becoming jarl and having an army of chicks etc is fucking ridiculous. Not to mention the number of non-Germanic peoples playing Germanic characters (which is normal in Hollywood with around 1% (ironically the global population of Germanic people left) being actually white people playing white people) there's heaps of messed up thinks in Vikings that are politically motivated. Well, besides washer-mail, that's just stupidity.
@@bashkillszombies Have you noticed lately that most historical dramas show people only eating fruit and not meat? More hollywood bullshit...
I really like those strap dresses over the under dress. It’s almost like a modern jumper dress. I may need to make one of these.
Please don't.
I adore the clothing of both the men and women and all the various objects, there was some beautiful crafts on show here. As much as I love to listen to the history and mythology that you provide it's nice to take an interest in other more general areas too and I thank you for sharing these. Takk skjalden
I am glad to hear that you liked the video crowsbaneful, my plan is to make more videos like this. Have a nice start on your week :)
I see a lot of people on TikTok talking about how inaccurately the Viking clothing and other aspects of their culture has been represented. I feel like sometimes people try to minimize the Norse culture because it is a European culture. Yes the Vikings show is incredibly inaccurate but that doesn’t give people the right to minimize the culture itself.
This video needs to be shown to all costume designers in the film and TV industry. Vikings TV show clothes are bad, but I think the clothes and weapons in another show on at the moment, The Last Kingdom, takes it all to an even higher level of silliness when they portray the Danes.
I know i am late but my interest for this will never die. This video answered so many things i have been wondering about. Good to see that they were not only religious fighters and killers, but mostly normal people.
07:52 That´s the reconstructed viking houses at Haithabu in northern Germany!
I´m there at least 3-5 times a year for the viking fairs and markets...^^
Are the reconstruction groups funding the housebuilding?
@@meginna8354 It is the viking age museum there, who pays for the houses(Construction and upkeep). The museum was designated world cultural heritage or some such, a year or two ago. They are sooooo proud, lol. ;)
They had to have been skilled at spinning and weaving the wool.
Wool and linen....
This channel deserves far more attention. Seriously the best in the genre. Keep it going, skjal. It will take off when people find it.
Thank you for the kind words TheLonelyMarksman, I hope you are right about that :)
Something I rarely see, but heard from a source I trust, was that Viking dresses were made to have a reversible panel in front, which could be worn plain side out for daily chores, or flipped to have the richly decorated side showing for when company came. The brooches held the panel in place and made it easy to flip quickly.
Drawstrings probably held up the pants. The belt was more of an accessory that you could hang many optional items from. If you use a belt on the outside of your clothing, it will keep the wind from blowing up under your shirts, thus protecting you from the cold winds. I always heard that campaigns took place during the summer while the crops were growing, but I still don't see a warrior race such as the Vikings, overlooking something as simple as keeping their pants up during a fight.
you are right about the belt. I had to give this video a thumb down because of that... Even cowboys usually wore two or more belts, its the same idea to have a separate gun belt. Imagine a place asks you to check your weapons at the door, and your trousers fall down and everyone else with a gun belt or sword belt laughs at you and you have to order a rootbeer
Thanks for all the hard work and research. I love learning about my distant ancestors. I hope to get to visit Scandinavia one day,
Viking belts were 2-3 cm which is 25/32 - 1 1/8... but hey...
Best channel about the vikings I have found! Much respect from Norway!
This Channel is quickly becoming one of my Favorites! Your Level of Research is Outstanding!
Thank you patriotpioneer, I am glad to hear that :)
Good information and examples.
loved this one vary much
Man this helped me for a viking test thanks a lot
very good info that we need
Your videos are very well put together. Thank you.
THANK YOU
Thank you for an informative and well-made video.
Thank you for posting. This was very informative and appreciated.
Beautifully made video and good well researched information. Thank you, and you've just won yourself another subscriber 🏞️🐗
This video is amazing I love viking / Norse history , even though I am Anglo Saxon 🤣, great effort , thank you 🤝
I have Anglo-Saxon, but was surprised at the amount of Norman that I found on my tree, throughout France,England and Ireland.
Fitzes everywhere!
Plus just Norwegian, Swedish and Danish, with a bit of Finnish.
Beautiful; Tack för att du delar! Thank you for sharing!
Thank you sir for this very informative video.
After reviewing this do you think it is also possible that they had belts made from fabric, or even lined the leather belts with decorated fabric strips sewn onto the outside of the belts?
Heels in footwear probably were developed for riding horses, so that the feet would not slip out of the stirrups.
Their clothing, jewelry ,bags and shoes are beautiful! New subb
Love your videos
You should tell the people that made the popular History channel series "Vikings" that, because they wear some gorgeous earrings on the show.
Skål Brother! Subscribed
8:20
Do you have any photo of an example of the tri lobe broach with a shoulder/waist belt being used to hold a weapon?
Well done. Thank you for sharing this with us. The belt parts were of great interest in how different many were. I wondered if women utilized belts, or if they were exclusive to men.
I swear. The danish potato-accent is the most recognizable accent in the entire world. Delig danske pølse!
I still have a grinder to make my own.
Just to clear up any confusion, starting at around the 14:42 mark, the narrator says the belts were only about 2cm wide "which is 3 to 4 inches" but that obviously doesn't make sense. I think the narrator meant to say 3/4ths of an inch (three-quarters, aka 75%, of an inch), which would indeed be roughly 2cm.
2cm is 0.787402in
So, it is 0.393701 inches to 1 centimeter.
Or is you want the reverse:
1in = 2.54cm
Very good and very accurate, sir.
Thanks, B.A. Howard
This is Very Beautiful and Very Awesome to See and Learn! Thank you my Fellow Vikinger Friend! I truly love the clothes and hope to have an offite of these styles, made out of wool and linen. Thank You!!
P.S. What Norse country are you from? I'm 30% Swedish and 3% Danish.
Tusentak my Friend!!
I am Danish :)
I visited the national museum of Denmark not long ago. The viking fashion objects are much more attractive to me than the later Christian European ones.
Victor Magtanggol (Hammer man) series as inspired by Norse mythology in Filipino network.
There's a similar saying in English, 'the clothes make the man'.
Or a woman.
@NationalVideoWatcher hi
The real saying is , modern day . . Clothes and make up , don't make a woman , what is inside does , ie , loyal a good heart . . Loving ,caring . . Very few and far between in this day and age . . Same thing goes for men , clothes make the man . No . Be a true man . As above ,
I thought it was "Manners maketh man" - or woman.
Mario Layton I disagree. Clothing is a manifestation of people’s identity. That’s why I think that the traditional clothing is so beautiful because it represents the culture of the time. But I also find modern clothing equally as beautiful, or even more beautiful, because it represents our culture of today. And modern clothing has the luxury of being able to learn from and build off clothing from the past!
Too bad they don't represent them properly on TV and video games.
Fasinating! It is too bad we can't travel through time to see them. Maybe someone will discover some clothes intact.
Hey skjalden i want to make a kit from norway with tunic and pants so i would like to know if you have some link with photos from a norway kit in the 9th century
I am very interested to see that the Vikings had a form of torc In so many archaeological documentaries the insinuation is that only the Celts had this form of neckband and yet at 16:29 there is a very similar neckband. Is there a name for this in the Nordic region? I would love to know. Was this jewelry maybe imported from Britain from the Celts?
Vikings and Celts largely share ancestry with the earlier, central European group Keltoi. They migrated north and west to northern Europe and the British Isles. I believe there was also later cultural mixing as a result of clashes between the Celts and Vikings
@@RosieMe5 - Especially in Ireland where Vikings founded so many cities along the shores, and of course, at places where they were known to have settled (Jorvik/York, and in Scotland) and inland cities in Britain that still carry Viking names. It's also reflected in the art. In Art History classes I could barely tell the difference between Scandinavian and Celtic art without knowing where the artifacts were found, and I'm still not so sure on some of them.
Ya they often said; I'll be back!
This should be my home.
I know this is an older video, but is it possible for you to add a bibliography or works cited in future videos so people can read and investigate more about this topic?
would be interesting to know what they wore in battle..
Very good Im a silversmith also
And bronze .I worked .In the winter in the north Im sure we do the same as our people.Layer up .At least i did when I would go out and go to work .Even you have a torch in your hands ,that door swings open Yes layering is a must .love the boots .Im a boot freak .In france and England .They became obsecest with pointy shoes .Not allowing them on the battal field .We are more practical, yea dont want to be too tall .I work better on my feet flat .If I reconize we are still the same way .Just with better fabrics.I also use bees wax not on fabric , but face cream.Love the broches .love the silver of couse . we are so much like our ancesters.It just goes to show .Unreal .Being a lady and loving my needles an yarn .and neddle point and sewing .I have patterns in my head .Its pretty bad .All things get done in due time .Amazing I even know how to make a dragons head . for a longship .I do use my designs in my garden .To make it fairy friendly .all is good Happy Fraya dag
A great many of us have Viking blood.
There is a theory, which was proven experimentially, that all European people living arround 1000 (except the lines that died out) are ancesters of all Europeans alive today.
So we probably all have viking ancesters
Your measurement conversion is wrong. A belt that was 2 cm wide would only be about 3/4 inch wide, not 2 or 3 inches.
Fuck all this inch garbage.
The world is metric. Learn to cope.
Doesn´t change the fact that you are correct in that he screwed up bad there...
martialme84 . Relax . He said 3to 4 inches . So he probably meant 3/4 of an inch
I really wish there were subtitles.
I have been going back to my Danish roots and learning history and culture. I recently started Kulning a year ago and upload it onto my channel.
Hello, Skjalden. I've just found your channel and subscribed after watching a couple of videos. I love what you've done with them, they're very informative and i'm looking forward to watching all of them as well as future videos. That said, I am curious about a couple of things. You mentioned that the men wore short sleeved tunics in the summer - did the women wear short sleeves as well, or no? And, if not, (must have been unbearably hot and uncomfortable) were they allowed to push the sleeves up to accomplish certain tasks and such? My other question: history has always informed us that Viking Age women were not allowed to carry any weapons at all and I was wondering if this was true or not, given the freedoms they had over what other European women had? If not, how do they account for the remains of women warriors that have been discovered and how did women accomplish some of their chores as well as defending people (especially children) if attacked by animals or hostile people? I find it hard to believe that they just stood idly by or even ran to hide. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with the world. Have a wonderful day.
Hello Anna Thryn, I am glad that you liked some of the videos so much that you subscribed. We do not know if the women also wore short sleeves, but if I had to guess they probably did due to the heat. Regarding your other question, my answer would be to long to write here, it will be explained in a video sometime in the future.
Thank you so much for your reply, Skjalden. I look forward to that future video. Your videos are very engaging, with lots of information. They are also very well narrated. Keep up the fantastic work. A wonderful day to you.
Hei , being me it was important to learn embroidery, I had to learn. Now they have machines. Yes don't go out with out your knife . .On the art page we had broches I'm also a silver Smith We wear anything to stay warm ...we had shoes also on the page .The English started the pointy shoe they were not allowed to wear on the battle field .we sell hand bags .a new artist came on .My papa said know one can be coincided he had it all .bees was I use that in my skin care . I need to make some torch wear my hammer with pride Skáll
did men and women use the same style of cloth?
can you point me to where I can get some merchandise ?
Viking markets in Scandinavia is my favorite place to visit for merchandise.
WOW wow unique style of clothing. And why didn't the women wear any jewelry back?
Jolene Goodwin They absolutely did. Necklaces were worn as were handmade glass beads strung and hung between the two brooches on the hangerock. They also wore rings and bracelets, called arm rings. Brooches were also used to close capes.
Thank you for this information. Did they use sabots or clogs in the Viking era?
Can I teach you a few useful words of English please? The small statuettes or human figures are called figurines and the leg wrappings you can call puttees or gaiters that are still used by hikers for protection or water proofing the lower legs.
They were worn extensively by the armed forces and are very prominent in photos from WW1.
I think sabots are Dutch or French, I dont think the Vikings had them, I remember reading somewhere they came to Scandinavia in the 14th or 15th century but I could be wrong. I always try to improve my english, which is why I decided to make the videos in english and not Danish, and I dont mind if you point something out.
Thank you. Yes I know that sabots are French and clogs Dutch but there were the Normans in France and in Netherlands the Frisians, both from the same stock as our common ancestors. In the north of England clogs were worn by the workers, that part of te country with strong association to the Viking settlers over here.
Your English is very good and all I was doing was to provide you with some more words for your vocabulary. The two words for the leg protectors may be regarded as more specialist words than general use. Frmers used to wrap string used to bale hay around their lower trouser legs to prevent the loose material from being caught in farm machinery, this was also called gaiters.
Interesting about foot wear. 👍
Is the narrator the archer Lars Andersen?
Handbag is carried in the band.
Those are sporrans.
Look up the sami kolt they mirrors the nordmens clothes....
2 centimeters are not 3-4 inches. Rather, they are three fourths of an inch!
So basically nothing like that Ubisoft game lol
What about the white underwear the priest wore in the show Vikings?
The show "Vikings" put out by History Channel has MANY historical inaccuracies in it. I saw the previews and was looking forward to it..., but..., I couldn't make it through the first season because of the inaccuracies, starting with the modern hair styles and clothing and beads in the men's beards. Had any of the makeup and hair style department people looked at old artifacts made during the Viking era they could have what what is depicted and done the makeup and hair far more accurately and realistically. The electric guitars screeching in the opening credits should have given me a clue that it was gross fiction. My other first clue was the use of modern horses during the first episode, not fjord horses or Icelandic horses. My thought seeing a modern horse was: "Oh, this can't be good!"
BTW, they didn't call themselves Vikings. Going a-viking was an occupation, often a summer adventure between spring planting and fall harvest so younger sons could hopefully get enough money to work toward financial independence to build a house and support a wife and children while perhaps working for someone else. If he couldn't afford to support a wife and family she would not marry a man. Remember the old prayer? "From the fury of the Northmen, oh Lord deliver us." They were men from the north in their minds and that of the people they invaded. Ergo, Normandy in France was named for them. William the Conqueror was a descendant of a Viking / Norseman.
SKÖL!! 👍🏻
Skål and have a good week Lorie :)
what is te name of the flower where they got the red colour?
I believe he said marrow root.
I believe this was probably madder root, but there could be a different one as well that I’m not familiar with.
It is probably Madder. Madder is Kraprod in Danish, Krapp in Swedish, scientific name Rubia tinctorum, in the family Rubiaceae. This plant gives a red dye and is used since antiquity.
Both Madder / Krapp (Rubia tinctorum) which gives a red dye and Woed / Vejde (Isatis tinctoria) which gives a blue dye have been found in Viking age layers in York according to English Wikipedia.
@@ebonyivory2023 Not a dye plant (kind of pumpkin, Cucurbitaceae).
I can be of your help; if you want to get from a Bangladeshi manufacturer
Wasn't it much warmer in Europe then than today?
Brubeck Desmond yeah I’ve read that it was warmer ! Still it would have been cold throughout winter !
No...
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Ehhh - 2 centimeters - is less than 1 inch -NOT 3-4 inches ( which is between 7,5 - 10 centimeters...)
5:12 rightside...how NOT to use legbindings...
I love to see the ladies clothes 😍
NO, 2 centimeter is NOT 3 to 4 inches as you say, but 3/4 inch! BIG difference! ☺️
2 centimeter is about .75 of an inch.
2:51 they look like guitar straps
I think if you take an ax to your belt it's going to be cutting a bot more than just your belt...
How many inches to a centimeter?
late answer but 1 inch is 2.54 cm...
13:43 W2C??!?
Ancient celts i read,were very similar to the norse peoples. Unforuneatly Nothing is left of them either
2cm = 1in
10cm = 4in
Approximately.
Hie , sorry to rewrite . When I was being train to be a silver Smith, My teacher always said the dirty silver side your on . Now they have silver that does not tarnish. I ordered 5 oz try it out on my new kiln . I worked a lot with bronze . We would use head gear not to not get in to your food . My hair is down to my but .Silk is not good for us we get to hot .I only use it on bed sheets . Yesterday my children I teach asked me if I ever take my hair out of my braid . I had to laugh.I have different shoes one for the garden . One for my Harley .one for me to walk . .It is time to start getting in to the field .I do not like to wear heals because I'm very tall .It is strange even in America. I walk in to a food place .The owners come out to meet me .if thier from a different. O heck I'm making a ring . She want knots easy then ruins then the stone which is a black diamond .my tork is silver, I also am making a moon pendant. Copy from my .mine is from the 6 centery. I have been thinking 100 ways of doing this . Since my kiln got lost in the mail . It just left the country it was in its small so I don't have to fire up my big one . For the ring I was thinking do with wire , the knots , then twist silver on top and bottom , then add the ruins where some of the knots are but soder ruins in then add it to a sheet of silver , then set . Problem she wants the ruins inlay .The pendant is easyer cut out then soder what I want on there . .I will give her a alazandrit. I asked that what she wants . New mine in Brazil that opened I would have given her a blue diamond . Alxazandrite it is .In real life which is worth more . Diamonds are a dime a dozen . But beautiful . Alxazandrite is rare to find . And also comes in many colours . I been buying them up as well as tanzanite . In the old world Amathest was considered rare . We didn't have very much . Mines in America's opened up a whole new ball game flex is easyer to make then to buy and picking is easy also . Every time I order silver they send me a little package of flex . I have to laugh . I can make a bunch of flex for pennies .Bronze is easy to work with . I made a least 2000 object maybe more stuff then that with bronze . I don't understand why we love silver so much . I always have . Not even knowing at the time it is something we crave . I guess my Ansesters were in my head when I started learning this trade .I'm a Smith and a farmer .sound normal to me . I do do the girl stuff . Like when I made my bench made sure it was functionable and pretty .And level I even painter my cast iron vise .I am both handed . I found out after I made it I added a arm on the left . To hold my bits . And stuff . Then I ran out of wood . It's all work able . I really wish I could show you my work room . I have Thors hammer above my bench ..I have to get to the field . I belive are ancestors are always with us . Some of us still have the gean of old . Some don't. I'm glad I do . Bra Fraya dag , Earth XP spelling police .leave me alone thakk.Skoll to you my dear Earth XP
what. no pockets, and no one even mentioned suspenders. how bout a sweater. just a sweater. it's cold out here. ya'll never survive in greenland dressed like this. woolen under wear is a torture rarely known to modern man. straw works great in boots. laplanders still use it. well i've gotta go for a little row now. u know a little raiding party. party hearty i always say. harharhar.
thank yew i enjoyed the show. take care gare
I wish you good luck on your raid for silver and riches :)
Gary Chynne have you ever worn viking clothes
Hej, jeg er Danske
Woolen boxer shorts? Fuck that.
Who said they wore underwear...?
the clothes are lowkey cute
2 cm is less than 1 inch not 3 or 4 inches
A 20cm wide belt? I think you mean 20mm!
Did Vikings wear green
yes, the Vikings had many colors :)
They could wear basically any color except purple because it was insanely expensive
is that Swedish?😅😅😅😊
Who came here bc of theyre teacher
OK, tell me the difference between a Dane and a Viking or a Swede and a Viking. Aren't raiders the only ones called vikings?
JAT002 so back in that Age the three tribes or Nations that are responsible for the “ Viking age “ are as follows Danish Norwegians And Swedes ! Collectively known As the Norse or Norsemen ! The term Viking comes from the old Norse term for River Stream or Fjord “ Wik “ so to Go A Wikingur ! So it was something One would do seasonally raiding season in Spring or summer time ! One Norseman Who Raided The West coast of Scotland Called Ragnald Was Nick named Somerled which ment Summer sailor/ Summer lad ! Raganald Somerled Become the First Donald of the isles , Donald is Scots Gaelic for Chieftain! So if you are A MacDonald of the isles you area descendant of this man ! Second highest progenitor of descendants, second only to Genghis Khan !
I think you mean 3/4" or 0.75 inches.
This dude is really using a green screen for the background. This is also bs
Is anything known about viking women's underwear?