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\"Viking<\/a>
Painting by Oscar Wergeland
(1844-1910)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“Between rowing boats and decapitating enemies, Viking men must have stunk to high Valhalla, right? Quite the opposite. Excavations of Viking sites have turned up tweezers, razors, combs and ear cleaners made from animal bones and antlers. Vikings also bathed at least once a week\u2014much more frequently than other Europeans of their day\u2014and enjoyed dips in natural hot springs.”<\/p>\n

\u00a0Vikings were active in the slave trade.<\/strong>
\n“Many Vikings got rich off human trafficking. They would capture and enslave women and young men while pillaging Anglo-Saxon, Celtic and Slavic settlements. These \u201cthralls,\u201d as they were known, were then sold in giant slave markets across Europe and the Middle East.”<\/p>\n

\u00a0Viking women enjoyed some basic rights.<\/strong>
\n“Viking girls got hitched as young as 12 and had to mind the household while their husbands sailed off on adventures. Still, they had more freedom than other women of their era. As long as they weren\u2019t thralls, Viking women could inherit property, request a divorce and reclaim their dowries if their marriages ended.”<\/p>\n

Source: \u00a0History<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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