How clean were the Vikings, really? This animated look at Viking hygiene shows how they kept clean, from combs and ear spoons to Saturday baths and lye soap, and why the “filthy barbarian” is one of the biggest Viking myths in movies. It’s Viking history from everyday life, beyond the battlefield.

Follow Bjorn through one very clean week. Vikings carried combs made from reindeer antler shipped in from Norway, plus a pocket grooming kit with tweezers and a tiny spoon for ear wax. Saturday was literally “washing day,” the sagas mention steam baths, and many historians think lye soap was used to bleach hair and beards blond, which was also bad news for lice. Women were even buried with glass smoothers for ironing linen.

Then the less flattering side. An Arab traveler on the Volga watched a whole crew wash, spit and blow their noses into one shared basin and called them “the filthiest of God’s creatures.” A thousand-year-old poop found under a bank in York turned out to be full of worm eggs. And a 2023 study of Viking teeth found cavities in almost half the people, along with one molar drilled to let out an infection. No anesthetic.

So were the Vikings clean? Depends who’s holding the basin.

Chapters
0:00 Raid day: filthy barbarian?
0:34 Why movies get Vikings wrong
0:56 The comb, a Viking’s favorite gadget
1:28 The pocket grooming kit
1:43 Harald Fairhair and the “Danish fashion”
2:26 Saturday bath day, saunas and hot springs
3:02 Hávamál: wash before dinner
3:21 Lye soap and going blond
3:46 Laundry and ironing
4:09 Ibn Fadlan: “the filthiest of God’s creatures”
4:50 The Lloyds Bank coprolite
5:17 Viking dentistry
5:47 Verdict

Some stories here come from sagas written down centuries later, and the video says so when it uses them.

Sources
Ibn Fadlan, Risala (922), trans. Lunde & Stone, 2012
Snorri Sturluson, Heimskringla: Saga of Harald Fairhair
Hávamál (Poetic Edda)
Eyrbyggja saga
Ælfric, letter to Brother Edward (c. 1000)
Chronicle attributed to John of Wallingford (13th c.)
Lloyds Bank coprolite, JORVIK Viking Centre, York
Bertilsson C. et al., “Caries prevalence and other dental pathological conditions in Vikings from Varnhem, Sweden,” PLOS ONE, 2023
Ashby S., A Viking Way of Life (2014)

About this video
The narration uses a custom AI voice created in ElevenLabs. The voice is unique to this channel, and I hold a full commercial license to use it.
The animation was produced with the help of AI tools, then edited and corrected by hand.

Next episode: how Bjorn survives a Scandinavian winter. Subscribe so you don’t miss it, and tell me in the comments what part of Viking life you want to see next.

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When the Black Death killed a third of Europe, the survivors suddenly had bargaining power. Wages rose, peasants ate better, priests demanded raises, and the rich tried to make all of it illegal. Seven true stories from the plague economy.

Chapters:
00:00 The Plague Economy
00:46 The Illegal Raise
02:35 The Dress Code
03:50 The Harvest Feast
05:03 Priests For Hire
06:09 The Plague College
07:11 The Jubilee
08:24 The Honest Riot
09:57 That’s All

Sources:
P1: Ordinance of Labourers (1349), Statute of Labourers (1351); C. Dyer, Making a Living in the Middle Ages (2002); Britannica “Statute of Labourers”.
P2: Archbishop Simon Islip, constitution “Effrenata” (1350), in Wilkins, Concilia III; B. Putnam, “Maximum wage-laws for priests after the Black Death” (AHR 1915).
P3: Statute of Diet and Apparel 37 Edw. III (1363), repealed 38 Edw. III (1364); Statutes of the Realm vol. 1.
P4: C. Dyer, “Changes in diet in the late Middle Ages: the case of harvest workers”, Agricultural History Review 36 (1988) (Sedgeford, Norfolk).
P5: Clement VI bull Unigenitus (1343); Jubilee of 1350 (Catholic Encyclopedia “Holy Year”); Urban VI 33 yrs, Paul II 25 yrs (1470).
P6: Trinity Hall founded 1350 by William Bateman; Corpus Christi founded 1352 by the Guilds of Corpus Christi and the Blessed Virgin Mary; Gonville Hall 1348 (Gonville & Caius histories).
P7: Anonimalle Chronicle; Henry Knighton’s Chronicle (Savoy, silver cup thief); Thomas Walsingham; John Ball sermon at Blackheath; R.B. Dobson, The Peasants’ Revolt of 1381.

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