Nicole’s Reviews > Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings > Status Update

“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.”