Arabs described Vikings as “pretty but filthy”

[Breathe]

I have never seen more perfect physiques than theirs – they are like palm trees, are fair and reddish, and do not wear the tunic or the caftan.

They are the filthiest of all Allah’s creatures: they do not purify themselves after excreting or urinating or wash themselves when in a state of ritual impurity after coitus and do not even wash their hands after food.

https://www.icenews.is/2017/03/15/ar...ul-but-filthy/

An interesting article talks about the interaction between Arab and Viking traders.

[chinshen]

The pot calling the kettle black.

[sean]

Myth.

The Vikings are historically renowned for their cleanliness. Of all the savage things they did, being filthy was not one of them. Vikings were buried with their possessions and the most common kind of item found was grooming. Combs, razors, scratchers, soap, ear spoon etc.

Spoiler!

Most historians agree they were some of the most well groomed, and hygenic people of the time period. They bathed two times a week, more than other Europeans.

Vikings had better hygiene than Arabs have now. The fact that Arabs wipe their arseholes with their bare hands ought to say something.

Spoiler!

[lustermoo]

Myth.

The Vikings are historically renowned for their cleanliness. Of all the savage things they did, being filthy was not one of them. Vikings were buried with their possessions and the most common kind of item found was grooming. Combs, razors, scratchers, soap, ear spoon etc.

Spoiler!

Most historians agree they were some of the most well groomed, and hygenic people of the time period. They bathed two times a week, more than other Europeans.

Vikings had better hygiene than Arabs have now. The fact that Arabs wipe their arseholes with their bare hands ought to say something.

Spoiler!

You literally cant use hygiene against Arabs they have terrific hygiene and you fail to mention that we use water it’s not like we’re just scraping our hands bums with shit so please be more accurate and also the people on that plane aren’t Saudi

[lustermoo]

The only reason you’d have a stereotype of Arabs being dirty or filthy is if you had a stereotype of brown = filthy, which is just purely racist

[Rædwald]

The only reason you’d have a stereotype of Arabs being dirty or filthy is if you had a stereotype of brown = filthy, which is just purely racist

The only reason they would add this derivative nonsense now is to make the stereotype of white = bad, which is just purely racist

[Rædwald]

https://www.icenews.is/2017/03/15/ar...ul-but-filthy/

An interesting article talks about the interaction between Arab and Viking traders.

If they had travelled in open boats from Northern Europe to the Arabian Peninsula then they probably would have needed a wash too probably.

[lustermoo]

The only reason they would add this derivative nonsense now is to make the stereotype of white = bad, which is just purely racist

I don’t believe in either obviously, I don’t know why people have to lie and paint a stereotype to make their point though.

[Rædwald]

I don’t believe in either obviously, I don’t know why people have to lie and paint a stereotype to make their point though.

Hmm, why would one group of people ever lie and stereotype a group of people in history could it be, that they were competing with them.

[jfgh676]

Myth.

The Vikings are historically renowned for their cleanliness. Of all the savage things they did, being filthy was not one of them. Vikings were buried with their possessions and the most common kind of item found was grooming. Combs, razors, scratchers, soap, ear spoon etc.

Spoiler!

Most historians agree they were some of the most well groomed, and hygenic people of the time period. They bathed two times a week, more than other Europeans.

Vikings had better hygiene than Arabs have now. The fact that Arabs wipe their arseholes with their bare hands ought to say something.

Spoiler!

Arabs wash their parts with water after going to the toilet. White people to this day smear their shit with paper. Compare it to eastern countries where the bidet is a common thing.

The author certainly felt contempt seeing the uncivilized vikings,like the romans did a few centuries before them