You Will Never Believe These Bizarre Truths Behind Vikings

Published on 06/01/2020
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The Vikings Reached North America Even Before Columbus

In the last 500 years, Christopher Columbus tried to sail the ocean blue to travel to different places. The first time that European had come in North America was a group of Vikings that Leif Eriksson was leading. Lief Eriksson’s father, who named Erik the Red, was a well-known traveler who came across different places. Before Lief had established the first European settlement of Greenland. Erik had traveled Iceland to Canada. He pushed his son to go to different locations as well. He knew that there were many undiscovered places for them to find. It became the inspiration of Leif that led him to discover North America. However, Leif decided that he would not move to attack or take over the land where the Native Americans were living. The story of the Vikings that discovered the North Americans was unknown to the people in this current age. It was not long ago that Christopher Columbus came into North America and claimed that he was the first European to have stepped on those land. The Vikings had their unique justice system that almost similar in our age.

The Vikings Reached North America Even Before Columbus

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Vikings Preferred Blonde Hair

The most famous Vikings tradition was they wanted to have blonde hair. This one was right for all those movies that we watched or lessons that we learned about them. Vikings did prefer to have blonde hair and would make them a beautiful person if someone had those colors on them. Some of them who did not bear to have blonde hair made a process to make their hair blonde. The Vikings used a strong soap that had high lye concentrating on bleaching their hair and shaping their desired color. Sometimes, Men would try to change the color of their beards just by bleaching them.

Vikings Preferred Blonde Hair

 

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