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[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 42 points 4 months ago

Muslims reintroduced bathing regularly to Europe during the Islamic Golden Age and centuries later Europeans are still melting down about it.

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 39 points 4 months ago

The Vikings tried really hard to get the British to take a bath.

[-] pooh@hexbear.net 16 points 4 months ago

I think the Romans also attempted this with the British, from what I've read.

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago

And neither Romans nor Vikings are around anymore. Coincidence? I think not!

[-] pooh@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago

Well, I mean, the modern English are sort of descended from Vikings (Anglo-Saxons). Scots and Irish are still mostly Celtic though (I think) and those places are way cooler, so not sure this argument holds

[-] pseudo@jlai.lu 5 points 4 months ago

Not an expert but from the name, I would imagine they descend from the Angles (Engles?) and the Saxes not from the Vikings.

[-] pooh@hexbear.net 4 points 4 months ago

Yeah, for some reason I was thinking Angles and Saxons were considered Vikings but I was totally wrong on that. You are correct.

[-] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 2 points 4 months ago

Northeast England and the east coast of Scotland have a fair amount of viking ancestry about from all the raiding, so it's not completely baseless.

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 4 points 4 months ago

Descended from is not the same as being. An Italian American is not an Italian is not a Roman even if you can trace descent.

[-] Diuretic_Materialism@hexbear.net 7 points 4 months ago

Do you have a source for this? Cuz I keep encountering historians who say "The idea that people in [insert time period] didn't bath is a myth". I kinda just assume now pretty much in human cultures bathed at least semi-regularly, people don't like smelling like shit. Sure in ye-olden times they probably didn't do it as frequently as we do today because clean water a bit more labor intensive to acquirer but I think it's weird to assume even mayo-kkkrackkers spend 100s of years just walking around with fungus growing in the crotches.

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