SC - Unbathed Vikings!?!?!
UlfR
parlei-sc at algonet.se
Wed Oct 25 00:27:54 PDT 2000
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, david friedman wrote:
> At 12:59 AM -0500 10/25/00, Stefan li Rous wrote:
> >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."
Ibn Fadlan, IIRC. I also think this is one of the few mentions of
unsanitary practices among Norse. His description of the bathwater was
too graphical to have any resemblance to reality, IMHO.
/UlfR
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