Viking woman's face reconstructed

With all due respect, if she's *hot* then I'm Miss America!

What do you expect! Even the "Rich" had a surprisingly hard life in these times. Disease, death, and multiple children(nothing resembling contraception!) and the prospect that the children she had would be dead by the time they were five. The vikings raided and settled areas that were more fertile and had more resources because their homeland had only limited space and finite resources to support the population. Also I'm sure anyone seeing the more plentiful foodstuffs available would eat themselves bigger as an insurance against harder times.

No wonder they went off far on raids having to come home to that *chuckle* Made me larf I wonder what the men looked like? Has there ever been a reconstruction of a viking male skull? It's all really fascinating isn't it? I used to love that Julian Whatsisname's programme about meeting the ancestors, a few years back

Why is the right side of her face drooping? No ones face droops that much unless they had a stroke or something, which they would not be able to tell from a skeleon. I'm always skeptical of facial reconstructions. They have the basic bone shape, but how would they know where the muscles should fit? Whoever did this should not have let her face look like it was melting

I bet she could beat up the guys these days.

Betcha Tiger Woods still would.

I live in Sweden with Denmark, Copenhagen just across the water 20 km away. This reconstructed face wich claims to be a face of a women viking doesn´t not look like people in our countries. A foreigners face, I would like to say. This broad face with features wich are not nordic points in the direction that this women was a slave. Perhaps from a slavic country or maybe a celt, but definitly not a characterstic nordic face.

I live in Sweden with Denmark, Copenhagen just across the water 20 km away. This reconstructed face wich claims to be a face of a women viking doesn´t not look like people in our countries. A foreigners face, I would like to say. This broad face with features wich are not nordic points in the direction that this women was a slave. Perhaps from a slavic country or maybe a celt, but definitly not a characterstic nordic face. Helena Engman... Swedish Shot Putt Champion 2008... Photo Source: http://apb.se/ath/pic_events.php?pageNum_Recordset1=61&events=Swedish What was that about broad faces?... [More]

Hahaha, yes, a typical shot putter regardless were ever she come from. You can certainly find a lot of exceptions from the common picture of typical nordic people nowadays. Especially after the viking age because the movement to Scandinavia increased there after. As everywhere else, we are mixed with other peoples here in Scandinavia. But of course, the reconstructed women could have been a viking women but with features which doesn´t conform with the common picture of nordic people and especially not at that time. I bet she were a slave (scottish?)Probably the same thing with scottish people... [More]