Did the vikings have toothbrushes?

For Icelandic Vikings, Iceland was extremely important. Basically they all emigrated there from Norway after disagreeing with the way that the Norwegian king was running things. Being a settler, or...

Vikings are called "Vikings," because they were a group of Norse pirates. The Old Norse word for "pirate" or "raider" was "Viking", when the left home to go raiding they were going "a viking" so that...

They were blond haired blue-eyed German barbarians that were also called norsemen and they came from Scandinavia

Yes, In the bay outside of my home town of Halmstad there was a large battle in 1302 (towards the end of the Viking era) with over 300 ships involved.

Viking culture was both cultured and very brutal in some regards especially when it came to issues of honor, insult and "manliness". Vikings were used to fighting and were required by law to always...