Comments by "Evan" (@MrEvanfriend) on "Things Archaeologists Got Wrong About the Vikings" video.

When I was in the Marines, we had a guy named Reinhardt or Reinhold or some such shit. He was a comm guy. We used to argue about whether he looked like ET or Jason Voorhees, until the movie 300 came out, and we all agreed that he looked like Ephialtes (the hunchback in that movie [and yes, I know that that movie was grossly historically inaccurate and that the real Ephialtes was a local farmer]) This Reinhardt/Reinhold/whatever his name was also had very poor hygiene. Poor to the point where the NCOs directly in charge of him had to make him shower by numbers - as in follow him into the shower, stand outside, and go "wash your armpits. Okay, done. Wash your asscrack...etc"
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@kristianjohansen5561 Svein. I find people calling Svein Forkbeard "Sweyn" obnoxious. It's an Anglicization that is entirely unnecessary. Knut/Canute is another one, but whatever, it all sounds the same. Don't be gay, stop calling Svein Forkbeard "Sweyn", it sounds ridiculous
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The idea of women vikings has been thoroughly debunked, and is nothing more than foolishness. Yes, women in Viking-Age Scandinavia were allowed to hold political power and were surprisingly autonomous compared to women in contemporary cultures. However, there is literally ZERO evidence of women going on viking raids or fighting. Sure, a politically powerful woman may have been buried with kingly instruments, including a sword and armor. However, the sagas say nothing about female warriors, the Anglo-Saxon/Frankish/Germanic/any other literate peoples raided by Vikings never mention female warriors (and do mention all manner of "these people are different from us" things). Most early medieval Scandinavians were not Vikings. "Viking" is a specific term referring to a raider. Týra may be the wife of Þorvald, and Þorvald may be a prodigious raider, warrior, and slaver, but that does not make Týra a Viking herself. She wasn't.
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The Danish raiders were absolutely a catalyst in English development. From words in the English language (the only one I can immediately think of is "starboard", a nautical/naval term meaning "right" [as opposed to left]) to place names (any English town ending in -by) to the beginnings of English common law. Were it not for the Vikings, the history of the English speaking peoples would be VERY different.
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