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Muslims reintroduced bathing regularly to Europe during the Islamic Golden Age and centuries later Europeans are still melting down about it.
The Vikings tried really hard to get the British to take a bath.
I think the Romans also attempted this with the British, from what I've read.
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And neither Romans nor Vikings are around anymore. Coincidence? I think not!
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
Not an expert but from the name, I would imagine they descend from the Angles (Engles?) and the Saxes not from the Vikings.
Yeah, for some reason I was thinking Angles and Saxons were considered Vikings but I was totally wrong on that. You are correct.
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.
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.
Why bathe when you can just wade in the swamp?
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.
