SC - Unbathed Vikings!?!?!

[david friedman]

At 12:59 AM -0500 10/25/00, Stefan li Rous wrote:
>This may have been true of the Norse in their homelands. It may
>not have been true when the Norse voyaged to other areas. The
>accounts of the Norse in Byzantine by the Moslems detail quite
>the opposite. While the exact quote is buried in the Florilegium,
>the paraphrase is that the Norse were dirty and stinky and didn't
>bother to bath even after sex.

I believe that ablutions after sex may be a religious duty in Islam; 
my basis for that is a bit I remember from the Nights. If so "don't 
always" would be grounds for disapproval, and could easily convert to 
"don't."
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