this is just bullshit! firstly, they used lye to wash their hair to remove fleas and lice! secondly, blond is a recessive gene, which means that if most people did not have blond hair, that gene would have died out and there would not have been blond people today. and the light blond hair is a puppy color, which means that when people grow up, the hair gradually darkens to dark blond, which some idiots think is brown hair. ps.blonde and red hair are the same gene
Bitch please My whole family is blond, red beards and you can see the viking males tall and muscled af, look like we all eat babies. except me just blond and the spy type, called skyke, means swadow. South West from Esbjerg is ragnars grave
I am upset that you said the lady with leather armor was historically accurate, in real history she would have been wearing a bunch of chainmail, and probably carrying a spear. Also she'd be the only woman on the battle field, seeing as for any culture men were more common in battle, but there is evidence of female viking warriors.
blonde children were produced more because it was more desirable. same reason many carribeans are lighter skinned, because light skin was more desired after colonization so they had children with lighter people. the Scandinavians had children with blonde so that more blonde would be produced.
@ryanwolfxx lmao..I'm Caribbean and most of us are mixed. I'm half East Indian, pashtun, black and white. Our society are predominantly of mixed race ppl and have nothing to do with wishing we were lighter.
How did it happen that so many Swedes are blond today, after so much mix with other peoples? Low melatonin is actually a survival feature on high latitudes. Especially for farmers. Inuits and Laps get a lot of vitamin D from fish or reindeer.
The Swedish Rus vikings that went down the rivers of eastern europe met with the arab Ibn Fadlan who wrote ”I have never seen more perfect physical specimens, tall as date palms, blond and ruddy”
Depends on if you're talking about Scandinavian vikings or vikings in general. The research revealing that many vikings had brown or red hair was done in areas the vikings had been to, not came from. The vikings went to other countries and the locals became vikings themselves. To quote the archeologist conducting the study, Cat Jarman, “These identities aren’t genetic or ethnic, they’re social. To have backup for that from DNA is powerful" The study found viking burials in Scotland where the genetic makeup was Gaelic DNA, explaining the red hair, as well as places like Italy. They even said that the reason for the brown and red hair being common was the mix of Euroasian ethnicities. The study wasn't done to disprove vikings being blonde, it was to prove that "viking" was a culture and not a synonym for old Norse Scandinavians.
When people are takling about vikings they are referring to those that came from Scandinavia which was also those that did all the historical conquering and mass raiding, only the vikings that settled in Normandy made it in to history books.
Vikings aren't all Scandinavian. Go google it. They share DNA with a bunch of Eurasian Ethnic groups. This is not surprising considering they travelled a lot and thereby many people of different ethnicities adopted the term "Viking". I quote from a Life Science article: "Those ferocious seafaring warriors that explored, raided and traded across Europe from the late eighth to the early 11th centuries, known as the Vikings, are typically thought of as blonde Scandinavians. But Vikings may have a more diverse history: They carried genes from Southern Europe and Asia, a new study suggests. [...] For the study, which took six years to complete, an international group of researchers analyzed the DNA taken from the remains - such as the teeth and bones - of 442 people who lived sometime between about 2400 B.C. to A.D.1600 found in archaeological sites across Europe and Greenland. These people lived, for the most part, during the Viking Age, which lasted from about A.D. 750 to A.D. 1050. The researchers then compared these ancient people's DNA with already published DNA sequences from 3,855 modern-day individuals and from 1,118 other ancient individuals. [...] This sweeping gene analysis suggested that the Vikings weren't just the continuation of Iron Age groups who lived from about 500 B.C. to about A.D. 700 in Scandinavia before the Viking Age. Rather, the Vikings and their ancestors would have intermingled often with people from Asia and Southern Europe. Many Viking individuals had "high levels of non-Scandinavian ancestry," the authors wrote in the paper." About 10% of Swedes have Viking DNA, according to Sience Alert. I wish more people would just go out and do a simple Google search to verify claims others make, instead of immediatly not believing them due to their intuition. This UA-cam short is an agreement with modern scientific research.
Who told you this? The most common hair color amongst scandinavians is blonde... Light blonde and dark blonde, they do not even have the genetics required to have naturally black hair... Modern Scandinavian genetics are identical to viking age scandinavian genetics, so they didn't look different at all. When you walk around in Scandinavia you will see people with golden blonde and dark blonde hair 90% of the time. Why are you trying to subvert a people and their culture? Whos paying you to make this anti-scandinavian propaganda?
Bro has never been to Scandinavia. It's not like the genetic has changed in the native population. Blondeness is a major haircolour Guys don't believe this armchair historian
Indeed, the study he got his information from is talking about people from palces the vikings colonized, not the Scandinavians themselves. Scandinavians today are genetically identical to them in the viking age, so the vast majority of vikings were golden blodne and dark blonde.
This is incredibly historically inaccurate. The Vikings from Sweden and Norway were mostly blonde. The ones who weren't usually bleached their hair with lye. Some Viking that were from more southern/Celtic tribes may have had darker hair but blonde hair was extremely popular and the most desired hair color. People would literally bleach their hair to achieve it . Also, red hair is very very rare. Blonde hair in Scandinavia is much more prominent and common than red hair.
When my kid was little she caught lice from school we both caught it. I treated her head. But I didn't have anyone to help with mine. So I dyed my hair and it killed everything. Lucky really. Hair dye will kill louse.
Scandinavian people, like all other germanic people, were - and still are - mostly blonde. If you wanted to debunk some missconception about viking hair, you could mention that vikings DID NOT wear hairstyles like undercut, mohawk or shaved sides. For germanic people having long hair was an important, religious practice & shaving or cutting it was often shameful and used as a punishment.
I’m Scandinavian and my dad has dark brown hair, mom has red hair, two brothers and three sisters with red hair, two sisters with brown hair, and my hair is blonde. We look just like those people.
Me when I just make shit up. Even nowadays brunette is not the most common hair color in northern Europe, it's blond. Brunette is a southern European trait and genetically different to blond so this isn't even possible. Furthermore, every single mummy from those times unearthed had been either redheaded or blonde lmao! Not to mention that every single historian from those times said that the Germanics were blonde and redheaded. "hair like fire" etc.
I was born with white hair that didn’t turn color until I was about 7 ish. I’m Nordic mostly and my hair is, well, was medium to dark brown. I’m getting old so the white is slowly drifting back in.
Swedes are blonde and blondes are originally from the Taiga in Russia. Norwegians are red headed. Fins are brunette or black haired unless they actually Swedes who conquered the original indigenous people of Scandinavia.
The Vikings were mostly blonde and also people have the wrong idea of what the "Viking Age" was... The Viking Age was the continuation of the Germanic peoples war against Rome, first the Roman Empire and later the Roman Church AKA Christianity... The Scandinavians AKA Northern Germans went on the offensive against Christians as revenge for what Charlemagne did to the Saxons (genocide)... The Scandinavians were the last of the Pagan Barbarians the Christian Rome was trying to conquer
Bro have you ever heard af natural selection? If blond people where seen as more attractive their would be more and more blond people over time, so their prob where quite a lot blond Viking’s
The swedish vikings who sailed down the river of eastern europe were described by an arab traveller as big, blond and tall. It wasnt mainly blond vikings ofcourse but compared to other peoples scandinavians had more blond hair.
@@aroncarlberger5881 Vikings aren't ethnically Scandinavians. They came from a bunch of different Eurasian ethnicities and thereby most of them aren't blonde because blonde is recessive. Vikings are known for travelling, idk why this is such a shock to so many people.
He's using a shitty study about people in places where vikings mixed in order to act like they represented vikings in Scandinavia. In Scandinavia they looked no different from today. The majority were blonde, golden blonde and dark blonde which is like light brown. But most of those with light brown hair would have their hair bleached from the sun and soap. It's only the children of vikings who had their way with women in Russia and the Baltic, and Britain, and France and so on who were not as blonde, but the Scandinavians were blonde.
Which Viking villages are you referring to??? There is a hugh difference between Viking settlements and Viking Colonizations. If we are talking about the cultures that Vikings invaded and colonized yes many would be brunettes and red heads, but if origins... as in where Vikings originated from they were most definitely mainly blondes. Stop the lying BS. If you go to Nordic lands like Finland, Switzerland, etc they are a lot of blond folks there.
The study he is talking about is in fact talking about the places where vikings colonized. it's a very infamous study because it is so obviously trying to subvert reality. It blasted the headline "vikings were diverse" everywhere as if people in Scandinavia were black and brown. Inr eality they just tested the DNA of people in places the vikings colonized, AKA people who werenot vikings. But I do want to correct you on one thing. Switzerland and Finnland are not viking nations, they were not vikings, only Norwegians, Swedes, and Danes were vikings, thats where norse culture originated. And they were and still are a majority blonde. Most actual vikings from Scandinavia would have golden blodne or dark blonde hair, which is like light brown, it's the same gene. Some would have red hair aswell ofc, it is also the same gene.
The study he got his information from desperately tried to say that. Know what "viking" genetics they tested for the study? They tested people in places where vikings left children... So if a nordic guy fucked a russian girl it would create the type of "viking" they tested, which isn't a viking at all. When you look at actual Scandinavians the vast majority of them were blonde, either golden blonde or dark blonde which is like light brown. 100% the same as today. Scandinavians 6000 eyars ago were identical to Scandinavians today, so the vikings were too. The guy who amde this video is just an American larper who whishes desperately he had any connection to vikings.
The video is partly inaccurate. Accurate: Vikings used lye to lighten hair, works if you have dark blond hair, it will get whiter blond with lye. Inaccurate: It is not rare to be blond in Scandinavia. Lot's of blond people in Scandinavia. Can be 100% Norwegian decent and have olive skin and dark brown/black hair also. Think whoever made this short video did not think it through.
Scandinavians in the viking age were just as blonde as today, meanign the vast majority are either golden blonde or dark blonde which is like a light brown, it's the same gene. This video is just straight up lying to you based on an infamous study about people OUTSIDE of Scandinavia. The vikings went many places and had children there, those are the "vikings" the study talked about. But those aren't Scandinavians, they're half viking half french, or scottish, or russian, or scottish. To use their average hair colors in order to make statements about what Scandinavians looked like is completely wrong. The people in Scandinavia were very blonde. All these viking larpers just want and excuse to be able to call themselves vikings. They're appropriating Scandinavian culture.
There was a time though in Viking history where almost everyone died their hair blonde. For the most part a lot of them weren’t but did dye lighten it idk how tho
I just read a book about vikings blonde hair it was very rare , also people forget that fact the were agricultures, so their diets was a lot of grains, basically it was food that they grow .and their height was between 5’7 and 5’9 yw. Ppl need to start reading books and don’t get their source of information from HOLLYWOOD👍😂🤷🏻
My German Vather when he was young, his school classmates where all blonde and my vather too and brown hair was rare, his hairstyle was like Prince Ironheart 😄
Wrong. The most common hair colour was blonde and then red. The first German tribes the Romans and Celts discovered were entirely blonde and red haired. Only after mixing with other tribes, slavs and slaves from many raids, Germans and Norse acquired more variety in hair colour
Not sure why people in this comment section don't understand he's talking about people a thousand years ago, not the modern day populations. Physical characteristics of populations in a given geographic area can and do change over time...
I don't know man. The Scandinavians are very blonde and probably always have been. It has something to do with the environment. White snowy landscapes ensure that light blonde hair prevails more. It was more common among the Germanic tribes than the Scandinavians to have some Brown-haired people because the environment is different. But Scandinavians were at least 90% blonde.
The Vikings mentioned here are non Scandinavian people who were incorporated into the Viking armies. The true native Vikings from Scandinavia were blonde and blue eyed
This is unrealistic. Vikings were not blonde! Their natural hair colors were... Then proceeds to tell you that vikings often treated thier hair to make themselves blonde.
He has misinterpreted an infamous study which uses DNA from people the vikings mixed with in order to make statements on Scandinavia. It is extremely dumb and honestly nefarious. Vikings sailed many places and they fucked women all over the place, that left children behind, those children are the ones he's actually talking about here. They weren't often blonde or red haired. But he's acting like they represent Scandinavia. Scandinavians of today are genetically identical to scandinavians of the vikings age. Just like today most of them were blonde, either golden blonde or dark blonde (which is like light brown). Scandinavains don't even have the genetics capable of producing naturally black hair. So he took a study which talks about people in the places vikings left children and used it to talk about how vikings in Scandinavia looked.
Did you know Thor was actually supposed to be a redhead how the hell did Marvel get that wrong in any way Marvel just sucks in general the only thing good about Marvel is rated R stuff
He wasn't. The oldest sources describe Thors hair as "Red as Gold". They used tor efer to gold as red, but they're clearly saying that his hair is the color of gold which is blonde. Only later christian sources refer to his beard specifically as flaming red, but they also call Thor a demon so I don't think they're very accurate at all.
Genetic research has shown that the Vikings in West Scandinavia, and therefore in Denmark, were mostly red-haired. However, in North Scandinavia, in the area around Stockholm, blonde hair was dominant. The study's co-author Professor Eske Willerslev told The Guardian, "Vikings are, genetically, not purely Scandinavian," and their most common hair color was actually not blond, but black. According to Science Magazine, ancient Vikings were even more likely to have black hair than modern Scandinavians or Danes today. What right🤔 Im Norwegian and blond. And there is allot of blondes here.
Thats not true at all, it's the other way around. Blonde hair became widespread in adults in the nordic bronze age. Groups of indo-european men caused it in Finland when they invaded and practically sexually replaced the native finnish men, causing finns of today to look more like swedes and norwegians than samis and other siberian tribespeople.
West skandinavian vikings was alot of red hair but skandinavians like stockholm up north and up more north were mostly blond i live in sweden most people are blond here and light brown hair and shore some have red hair but mostly blond and light brown and vikings was not a contry back then the map looked completly diffrent i would say that Stockholm in sweden and up north there were alot of blonds and people whit light brown hair its hard to explain ewerybody spoke the same launge in sweden but there were diffrent familys diffrent groups sweden was not just sweden back then it was diffrent kingdoms in the contry we call sweden today West skandinavian vikings were redheads not North thats that.
There was the same amount of blonde people in Northern Europe in the Viking age as there is today. Obviously not everyone up there is blonde and they weren’t back then either, though you were more likely to find them up there back then just as you would today.
Where did you get thus from?? Red is super uncommon - even back then. Most folks in Europe, mid, north and east are natural blondes in various shades. Some light, some dark and a hell load of inbetweens. Yes there are some ginger - not auburn, but this is rare and has always been. The super light blonde might be rare but so is actual brown hair. Most have been dirty blonde …. That is, infact blonde!
I am half Scandinavian my father who is 50% Norwegian 25%Danish 25%Swedish He is a Ginger and my grandfather who was from western Norway was what I believe they used to refer to as looking swarthy he had dark brown hair as an adult blond hair as a child my grandmother from Copenhagen Denmark was a ginger do what you pls with that info haha
Look at their art and listen to the stories. This is misleading intentionally. People are trying to dilute the culture. Blondes are Norse mutation red is Celt mutation. When cultures combined they always separated and created a new “peoples” this is why people have different traits.
This is false. Genetically, the further north you go, the more lighter the hair. Its because they adapted to the cold, and the rays of the sun would magnify off snow and almost have a bleaching effect.
What are you talking about? This is incredibly inaccurate and I don't know the purpose of why? Uncommon for Vikings to be blonde but common to be a redhead? "The rest of the pack" - what pack? Vikings weren't wolves, they were regular people in Scandinavia occasionally going on raids.
Ibn fadlan an arab traveler depiction of rus viking is like they are blonde, have tattoo, wearing tribal jewelry, physically attractive but they poop and mate in open😂 And he said they were blonde, not brown or red hair. So i don't know where you got this..
Growing up in England, we were taught that the Vikings were mostly redheads and since they migrated West, their closest relatives today would be the Scotts... Not the Finnish or the Swedes...
Sorry but that's not true, Britain has retained a lot of viking ancestry, but most vikings returned home, most of the viking ancestry is still retained in Scandinavia, except for Sweden, most Swedish viking ancestry is in Estonia, you can look it up, please just stop making up lies like this to try and steal our history.
@@GlobDaSon Saying "sorry, not true" isn't an argument. Especially when (as you mentioned) looking it up yourself can actually provide you aaaall the information you could want, to educate yourself on it.
@@RM-cw1ix I sent you the information in another comment thread, I didn't realize you were the same person, though I probably should have, as you're the only person I have seen making these claims.
@@GlobDaSon I know, you replied to both comments within minutes so I knew it was only one person doing so. You didn't actually provide any information there, you just disagreed and stated your own claims on what you think happened. Which you're very well entitled to do so!! And I went ahead and replied to those there, too.
Where is Bjorn Ironside burried? ua-cam.com/users/shortsOiYYQZ6cTMQ?feature=share
this is just bullshit! firstly, they used lye to wash their hair to remove fleas and lice! secondly, blond is a recessive gene, which means that if most people did not have blond hair, that gene would have died out and there would not have been blond people today. and the light blond hair is a puppy color, which means that when people grow up, the hair gradually darkens to dark blond, which some idiots think is brown hair. ps.blonde and red hair are the same gene
Bitch please My whole family is blond, red beards and you can see the viking males tall and muscled af, look like we all eat babies. except me just blond and the spy type, called skyke, means swadow. South West from Esbjerg is ragnars grave
I been to Björns burial mound
Your video is false and inaccurate
The Vikings were blonde
Period.
I am upset that you said the lady with leather armor was historically accurate, in real history she would have been wearing a bunch of chainmail, and probably carrying a spear. Also she'd be the only woman on the battle field, seeing as for any culture men were more common in battle, but there is evidence of female viking warriors.
I’m Scandinavian and red hair is very uncommon, blond is actually common though
Back then it was the opposite
@@zakariwalker7477 Red hair was not common. Scandinavians have gens for red, but is was rare. Dont tell lies.
@@TheUffeess can’t tell lies when that’s what I’ve been told, I’m okay with being wrong but don’t get angry with me mate
It's probably because Vikings steal blonde women and children from all around the world to make their population more blond lol.
Guess the witch hunt in Scandinavia took a big scoup out of the red headed DNA
Icelandic people descend from Vikings and have 70% blonde hair.
Thank you.
blonde children were produced more because it was more desirable. same reason many carribeans are lighter skinned, because light skin was more desired after colonization so they had children with lighter people.
the Scandinavians had children with blonde so that more blonde would be produced.
@@ryanwolfxx I stated Icelandic people specifically because they have been relatively isolated from Scandinavia since the Viking era.
@@dvrmte ah okay
@ryanwolfxx lmao..I'm Caribbean and most of us are mixed. I'm half East Indian, pashtun, black and white. Our society are predominantly of mixed race ppl and have nothing to do with wishing we were lighter.
How did it happen that so many Swedes are blond today, after so much mix with other peoples? Low melatonin is actually a survival feature on high latitudes. Especially for farmers. Inuits and Laps get a lot of vitamin D from fish or reindeer.
Idk, we swedes are weird. 🤷♂️
The Swedish Rus vikings that went down the rivers of eastern europe met with the arab Ibn Fadlan who wrote ”I have never seen more perfect physical specimens, tall as date palms, blond and ruddy”
@@aroncarlberger5881e also called them stinky barbarians with no manners lol
You mean melanin. Melatonin is for regulating sleep/wake cycles.
The blondes were hoes just like today. 😂
Depends on if you're talking about Scandinavian vikings or vikings in general. The research revealing that many vikings had brown or red hair was done in areas the vikings had been to, not came from. The vikings went to other countries and the locals became vikings themselves. To quote the archeologist conducting the study, Cat Jarman, “These identities aren’t genetic or ethnic, they’re social. To have backup for that from DNA is powerful" The study found viking burials in Scotland where the genetic makeup was Gaelic DNA, explaining the red hair, as well as places like Italy. They even said that the reason for the brown and red hair being common was the mix of Euroasian ethnicities.
The study wasn't done to disprove vikings being blonde, it was to prove that "viking" was a culture and not a synonym for old Norse Scandinavians.
I'm telling u I learn more from the comments than his shorts lmfao
The Dane mark, was ginger hair.
When people are takling about vikings they are referring to those that came from Scandinavia which was also those that did all the historical conquering and mass raiding, only the vikings that settled in Normandy made it in to history books.
Bro really snuck a watch ad or sth in this video💀
again
How could blonde be rare if 90% or Scandinavians had blue/green eyes and blonde is absolutely bound to happen from red and brunette mixed. Smfh..
well this was a long time ago, and since blondes were considered attractive.. it’s safe to assume more blondes were made pretty often
Vikings also migrated and are what you'd see as modern day Scotts, not Scandinavians
Vikings aren't all Scandinavian. Go google it. They share DNA with a bunch of Eurasian Ethnic groups. This is not surprising considering they travelled a lot and thereby many people of different ethnicities adopted the term "Viking".
I quote from a Life Science article:
"Those ferocious seafaring warriors that explored, raided and traded across Europe from the late eighth to the early 11th centuries, known as the Vikings, are typically thought of as blonde Scandinavians. But Vikings may have a more diverse history: They carried genes from Southern Europe and Asia, a new study suggests.
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For the study, which took six years to complete, an international group of researchers analyzed the DNA taken from the remains - such as the teeth and bones - of 442 people who lived sometime between about 2400 B.C. to A.D.1600 found in archaeological sites across Europe and Greenland. These people lived, for the most part, during the Viking Age, which lasted from about A.D. 750 to A.D. 1050. The researchers then compared these ancient people's DNA with already published DNA sequences from 3,855 modern-day individuals and from 1,118 other ancient individuals.
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This sweeping gene analysis suggested that the Vikings weren't just the continuation of Iron Age groups who lived from about 500 B.C. to about A.D. 700 in Scandinavia before the Viking Age. Rather, the Vikings and their ancestors would have intermingled often with people from Asia and Southern Europe. Many Viking individuals had "high levels of non-Scandinavian ancestry," the authors wrote in the paper."
About 10% of Swedes have Viking DNA, according to Sience Alert.
I wish more people would just go out and do a simple Google search to verify claims others make, instead of immediatly not believing them due to their intuition. This UA-cam short is an agreement with modern scientific research.
that's interesting because its kown that if a brunette and a blonde have a child together their child has a high chance of coming out with red hair.
Research.
Black hair?
No Scandinavian has black hair. Please.
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YOU MEAN THERE WERE NO STRONG BLACK FEMALE JARLS?!? 😂
Who told you this? The most common hair color amongst scandinavians is blonde... Light blonde and dark blonde, they do not even have the genetics required to have naturally black hair...
Modern Scandinavian genetics are identical to viking age scandinavian genetics, so they didn't look different at all. When you walk around in Scandinavia you will see people with golden blonde and dark blonde hair 90% of the time.
Why are you trying to subvert a people and their culture? Whos paying you to make this anti-scandinavian propaganda?
I love these videos but what's with the watch?
Source : my grandmas stories
“also, look at this fucking watch”
I just love how people like this creator just toss out facts without referencing any sources.
Bro has never been to Scandinavia. It's not like the genetic has changed in the native population.
Blondeness is a major haircolour
Guys don't believe this armchair historian
Indeed, the study he got his information from is talking about people from palces the vikings colonized, not the Scandinavians themselves. Scandinavians today are genetically identical to them in the viking age, so the vast majority of vikings were golden blodne and dark blonde.
Exactly! And red hair has only become less common due to genocides. Lol
This is incredibly historically inaccurate. The Vikings from Sweden and Norway were mostly blonde. The ones who weren't usually bleached their hair with lye. Some Viking that were from more southern/Celtic tribes may have had darker hair but blonde hair was extremely popular and the most desired hair color. People would literally bleach their hair to achieve it . Also, red hair is very very rare. Blonde hair in Scandinavia is much more prominent and common than red hair.
Danish Vikings were primarily Brunette or Redheads but nost Norse and Swedish Vikings were Blonde.
When my kid was little she caught lice from school we both caught it. I treated her head.
But I didn't have anyone to help with mine. So I dyed my hair and it killed everything.
Lucky really.
Hair dye will kill louse.
Scandinavian people, like all other germanic people, were - and still are - mostly blonde.
If you wanted to debunk some missconception about viking hair, you could mention that vikings DID NOT wear hairstyles like undercut, mohawk or shaved sides. For germanic people having long hair was an important, religious practice & shaving or cutting it was often shameful and used as a punishment.
The watch out of nowhere 😂
I’m Scandinavian and my dad has dark brown hair, mom has red hair, two brothers and three sisters with red hair, two sisters with brown hair, and my hair is blonde. We look just like those people.
Me when I just make shit up.
Even nowadays brunette is not the most common hair color in northern Europe, it's blond.
Brunette is a southern European trait and genetically different to blond so this isn't even possible.
Furthermore, every single mummy from those times unearthed had been either redheaded or blonde lmao!
Not to mention that every single historian from those times said that the Germanics were blonde and redheaded. "hair like fire" etc.
I was born with white hair that didn’t turn color until I was about 7 ish. I’m Nordic mostly and my hair is, well, was medium to dark brown. I’m getting old so the white is slowly drifting back in.
I’m like 90% Scandinavian and naturally blonde with blue eyes and so is most of my family 👀 it’s not rare at all actually.
Exactly. It is the stereotype for a reason, it isn't some fantasy
My friends from Sweden legit all were bleach blonde asf
from what I understand blondes were considered valkyries or touched by the gods.
Swedes are blonde and blondes are originally from the Taiga in Russia.
Norwegians are red headed. Fins are brunette or black haired unless they actually Swedes who conquered the original indigenous people of Scandinavia.
The Vikings were mostly blonde and also people have the wrong idea of what the "Viking Age" was... The Viking Age was the continuation of the Germanic peoples war against Rome, first the Roman Empire and later the Roman Church AKA Christianity... The Scandinavians AKA Northern Germans went on the offensive against Christians as revenge for what Charlemagne did to the Saxons (genocide)... The Scandinavians were the last of the Pagan Barbarians the Christian Rome was trying to conquer
I am blonde, how dare you😂
Bro have you ever heard af natural selection? If blond people where seen as more attractive their would be more and more blond people over time, so their prob where quite a lot blond Viking’s
It’s not an opinion it’s literally borderline facts that the majority of Vikings has brown hair.
The swedish vikings who sailed down the river of eastern europe were described by an arab traveller as big, blond and tall. It wasnt mainly blond vikings ofcourse but compared to other peoples scandinavians had more blond hair.
Vikings had red hair dude, not blonde
@@aroncarlberger5881 Vikings aren't ethnically Scandinavians. They came from a bunch of different Eurasian ethnicities and thereby most of them aren't blonde because blonde is recessive. Vikings are known for travelling, idk why this is such a shock to so many people.
He's using a shitty study about people in places where vikings mixed in order to act like they represented vikings in Scandinavia. In Scandinavia they looked no different from today. The majority were blonde, golden blonde and dark blonde which is like light brown. But most of those with light brown hair would have their hair bleached from the sun and soap.
It's only the children of vikings who had their way with women in Russia and the Baltic, and Britain, and France and so on who were not as blonde, but the Scandinavians were blonde.
Which Viking villages are you referring to??? There is a hugh difference between Viking settlements and Viking Colonizations. If we are talking about the cultures that Vikings invaded and colonized yes many would be brunettes and red heads, but if origins... as in where Vikings originated from they were most definitely mainly blondes. Stop the lying BS. If you go to Nordic lands like Finland, Switzerland, etc they are a lot of blond folks there.
Switzerland? lmao
The study he is talking about is in fact talking about the places where vikings colonized. it's a very infamous study because it is so obviously trying to subvert reality. It blasted the headline "vikings were diverse" everywhere as if people in Scandinavia were black and brown. Inr eality they just tested the DNA of people in places the vikings colonized, AKA people who werenot vikings.
But I do want to correct you on one thing. Switzerland and Finnland are not viking nations, they were not vikings, only Norwegians, Swedes, and Danes were vikings, thats where norse culture originated. And they were and still are a majority blonde. Most actual vikings from Scandinavia would have golden blodne or dark blonde hair, which is like light brown, it's the same gene. Some would have red hair aswell ofc, it is also the same gene.
Switzerland? I think you mean Sweden.
I'm an of Scandinavian decent - Norwegian. My hair is red & blonde mixed.
blonde is actually extremely common in Scandinavia and has been for thousands of years.
Just say Vikings were black, I know you want to say it.
Vikings weren’t black never was not a single one was
The study he got his information from desperately tried to say that.
Know what "viking" genetics they tested for the study? They tested people in places where vikings left children... So if a nordic guy fucked a russian girl it would create the type of "viking" they tested, which isn't a viking at all.
When you look at actual Scandinavians the vast majority of them were blonde, either golden blonde or dark blonde which is like light brown. 100% the same as today. Scandinavians 6000 eyars ago were identical to Scandinavians today, so the vikings were too.
The guy who amde this video is just an American larper who whishes desperately he had any connection to vikings.
vikings wont black bro
nobody is saying that dimwit
So where does blonde hair originate? I thought most Vikings were blonde or red heads? and if brunette, they were light brown brunettes.
The video is partly inaccurate. Accurate: Vikings used lye to lighten hair, works if you have dark blond hair, it will get whiter blond with lye. Inaccurate: It is not rare to be blond in Scandinavia. Lot's of blond people in Scandinavia. Can be 100% Norwegian decent and have olive skin and dark brown/black hair also. Think whoever made this short video did not think it through.
Scandinavians in the viking age were just as blonde as today, meanign the vast majority are either golden blonde or dark blonde which is like a light brown, it's the same gene.
This video is just straight up lying to you based on an infamous study about people OUTSIDE of Scandinavia. The vikings went many places and had children there, those are the "vikings" the study talked about. But those aren't Scandinavians, they're half viking half french, or scottish, or russian, or scottish. To use their average hair colors in order to make statements about what Scandinavians looked like is completely wrong. The people in Scandinavia were very blonde.
All these viking larpers just want and excuse to be able to call themselves vikings. They're appropriating Scandinavian culture.
@@Lily_of_the_Forest the video is bs .
There was a time though in Viking history where almost everyone died their hair blonde. For the most part a lot of them weren’t but did dye lighten it idk how tho
Some people believe vikings were black. Well, you do you.
Why show a wristwatch during the video about Viking hairstyles?🤷🏻♂️
I just read a book about vikings blonde hair it was very rare , also people forget that fact the were agricultures, so their diets was a lot of grains, basically it was food that they grow .and their height was between 5’7 and 5’9 yw. Ppl need to start reading books and don’t get their source of information from HOLLYWOOD👍😂🤷🏻
No. Red and black hair in Scandinavia is rare. Different shades of blonde and brown are most common
Sorry but a lot of them were literally blonde lol
My German Vather when he was young, his school classmates where all blonde and my vather too and brown hair was rare, his hairstyle was like Prince Ironheart 😄
I find red the most attractive hair colour.
The lye helped manage the HeadLIGHTS? Hahahaha
Wrong. The most common hair colour was blonde and then red. The first German tribes the Romans and Celts discovered were entirely blonde and red haired.
Only after mixing with other tribes, slavs and slaves from many raids, Germans and Norse acquired more variety in hair colour
I have travelled all over Scandinavia and blond hair is common.
I think they equally had all hair colors throughout the population..
This isnt true at all. They were described in historical texts as being large qith yolden hair.
I hate when ppl say this it was normal for dark blond hair and light brown. Like u cant tell me shit abt my ancestory.
I think it depends on the geolocation you are talking about.
Bro out here just lying out his ass
Red hair came to Ireland and Scotland from Norway.
Wtf are you saying, they DID had blonde hair, please educate yourself man
Not sure why people in this comment section don't understand he's talking about people a thousand years ago, not the modern day populations. Physical characteristics of populations in a given geographic area can and do change over time...
I don't know man. The Scandinavians are very blonde and probably always have been. It has something to do with the environment. White snowy landscapes ensure that light blonde hair prevails more. It was more common among the Germanic tribes than the Scandinavians to have some Brown-haired people because the environment is different. But Scandinavians were at least 90% blonde.
This is incorrect. From my understanding form Norse Paganism, Hair was dyed red seeing that Thor had red hair. 💀⚔️🔥
The Vikings mentioned here are non Scandinavian people who were incorporated into the Viking armies. The true native Vikings from Scandinavia were blonde and blue eyed
like swedes are what 40% blondes so its common but blond hair is a dying colour as black and brown are dominant
Omg u must be so happy
😂 Scandinavia is the blondest region on earth yet it was rare. This guy hasn't done his research.
It is historically inaccurate, but not for hair color. It's historically inaccurate because...
They didn't have skincare routines that good
I’m Norwegian and I can trace my blood line back to the Vikings and I have jet black hair and great video keep up the great work bro🇳🇴
Whereabouts did you get the art for the video?
I have mostly Scandinavian and British DNA and I am very blonde, my whole family is blonde except for a couple of brunettes.
I live in Finland and different shades of blonde are the most common hair color. You have clearly never been to nordics or Scandinavia.😅
Wait so I’m hearing there was a head lice problem that needed to be managed…..
This is unrealistic. Vikings were not blonde! Their natural hair colors were...
Then proceeds to tell you that vikings often treated thier hair to make themselves blonde.
What sources do you pull your Viking history from? I’m really fascinated by the topic and would like to learn more
He has misinterpreted an infamous study which uses DNA from people the vikings mixed with in order to make statements on Scandinavia. It is extremely dumb and honestly nefarious.
Vikings sailed many places and they fucked women all over the place, that left children behind, those children are the ones he's actually talking about here. They weren't often blonde or red haired. But he's acting like they represent Scandinavia.
Scandinavians of today are genetically identical to scandinavians of the vikings age. Just like today most of them were blonde, either golden blonde or dark blonde (which is like light brown). Scandinavains don't even have the genetics capable of producing naturally black hair.
So he took a study which talks about people in the places vikings left children and used it to talk about how vikings in Scandinavia looked.
His ass. Literally
Did you know Thor was actually supposed to be a redhead how the hell did Marvel get that wrong in any way Marvel just sucks in general the only thing good about Marvel is rated R stuff
He wasn't. The oldest sources describe Thors hair as "Red as Gold". They used tor efer to gold as red, but they're clearly saying that his hair is the color of gold which is blonde.
Only later christian sources refer to his beard specifically as flaming red, but they also call Thor a demon so I don't think they're very accurate at all.
Genetic research has shown that the Vikings in West Scandinavia, and therefore in Denmark, were mostly red-haired. However, in North Scandinavia, in the area around Stockholm, blonde hair was dominant.
The study's co-author Professor Eske Willerslev told The Guardian, "Vikings are, genetically, not purely Scandinavian," and their most common hair color was actually not blond, but black. According to Science Magazine, ancient Vikings were even more likely to have black hair than modern Scandinavians or Danes today.
What right🤔 Im Norwegian and blond. And there is allot of blondes here.
I mean, I call it modern viking style.
You are incorrect. Blond was very common in Estonia, Sweden, and Denmark. The Norwegians had darker hair. Red was introduced from the Irish genome.
No they were historically blonde and brunette. With red hair being uncommon. Why do you think blonde is still prominent in Scandinavia and Iceland.
You have your “facts” wrong.
Says the guy who said Vikings weren’t ripped
Camomilltea helped to lighten Thier hair 😅
We are Dui'ghalls or Mac Dougalls, our ancestors go back to Red Olaf, we were actually known as the "Dark Strangers". ❤
I love these. When we have specific detailed accounts on how they looked 🙄
You lost me at blonde was a rare color, don’t most Scandinavians have blonde or very light colored hair? 😵💫
The Vikings TV is wrong too. I do viking reenactment and the outfits Ste wrong to
The blond in Sweden comes from Finland. Learn facts!
Thats not true at all, it's the other way around. Blonde hair became widespread in adults in the nordic bronze age. Groups of indo-european men caused it in Finland when they invaded and practically sexually replaced the native finnish men, causing finns of today to look more like swedes and norwegians than samis and other siberian tribespeople.
According to netflix they were black
And Henry the 8th was Chinese
West skandinavian vikings was alot of red hair but skandinavians like stockholm up north and up more north were mostly blond i live in sweden most people are blond here and light brown hair and shore some have red hair but mostly blond and light brown and vikings was not a contry back then the map looked completly diffrent i would say that Stockholm in sweden and up north there were alot of blonds and people whit light brown hair its hard to explain ewerybody spoke the same launge in sweden but there were diffrent familys diffrent groups sweden was not just sweden back then it was diffrent kingdoms in the contry we call sweden today West skandinavian vikings were redheads not North thats that.
Tell me you dont know about Scandinavia without telling me
There was the same amount of blonde people in Northern Europe in the Viking age as there is today. Obviously not everyone up there is blonde and they weren’t back then either, though you were more likely to find them up there back then just as you would today.
Where did you get thus from?? Red is super uncommon - even back then. Most folks in Europe, mid, north and east are natural blondes in various shades. Some light, some dark and a hell load of inbetweens. Yes there are some ginger - not auburn, but this is rare and has always been. The super light blonde might be rare but so is actual brown hair. Most have been dirty blonde …. That is, infact blonde!
I am half Scandinavian my father who is 50% Norwegian 25%Danish 25%Swedish He is a Ginger and my grandfather who was from western Norway was what I believe they used to refer to as looking swarthy he had dark brown hair as an adult blond hair as a child my grandmother from Copenhagen Denmark was a ginger do what you pls with that info haha
what is up the the fucking watch
What’s wrong if red hair
Look at their art and listen to the stories. This is misleading intentionally. People are trying to dilute the culture. Blondes are Norse mutation red is Celt mutation. When cultures combined they always separated and created a new “peoples” this is why people have different traits.
Nah that watch... what watch is that
Did i see eivor?!
You shouldn’t post stuff you don’t know about my mother is Scandinavians and nearly all of her family have blonde hair
This is false. Genetically, the further north you go, the more lighter the hair. Its because they adapted to the cold, and the rays of the sun would magnify off snow and almost have a bleaching effect.
Source: trust me bro
False, Natives Americans and Asians live in equally cold areas. The Blond thing is just gene mutations.
What are you talking about? This is incredibly inaccurate and I don't know the purpose of why? Uncommon for Vikings to be blonde but common to be a redhead? "The rest of the pack" - what pack? Vikings weren't wolves, they were regular people in Scandinavia occasionally going on raids.
This dude doesn't have any knowledge of history, this entire channel is to advertise his watches with Rune designs.
This guy has all wrong viking facts 💀 I definitely wont be buying any watches from him
Something something look at this watch something something look a watch something something......
Inaccurate LOL
Ibn fadlan an arab traveler depiction of rus viking is like they are blonde, have tattoo, wearing tribal jewelry, physically attractive but they poop and mate in open😂
And he said they were blonde, not brown or red hair. So i don't know where you got this..
Growing up in England, we were taught that the Vikings were mostly redheads and since they migrated West, their closest relatives today would be the Scotts... Not the Finnish or the Swedes...
ridiculous. In America they taught Natives were savages…all history is Lies taught by the victors…
Sorry but that's not true, Britain has retained a lot of viking ancestry, but most vikings returned home, most of the viking ancestry is still retained in Scandinavia, except for Sweden, most Swedish viking ancestry is in Estonia, you can look it up, please just stop making up lies like this to try and steal our history.
@@GlobDaSon Saying "sorry, not true" isn't an argument. Especially when (as you mentioned) looking it up yourself can actually provide you aaaall the information you could want, to educate yourself on it.
@@RM-cw1ix I sent you the information in another comment thread, I didn't realize you were the same person, though I probably should have, as you're the only person I have seen making these claims.
@@GlobDaSon I know, you replied to both comments within minutes so I knew it was only one person doing so. You didn't actually provide any information there, you just disagreed and stated your own claims on what you think happened. Which you're very well entitled to do so!! And I went ahead and replied to those there, too.
Ok but then why are the majority of their decendants blonde af