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“A much-quoted Oxfordshire chronicler, writing around 1220 but working from older sources, recorded that Viking men arriving in England combed their hair every day, washed once a week, regularly changed their clothes, and "drew attention to themselves by many such frivolous whims"-behaviour so astonishing that the English women preferred them to their husbands.”

“Divorce was not uncommon, and a wife could initiate proceedings as well as a husband.”
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