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I looked at the film sets « Vikings »
not too fall at first sight, and I'mnot a pictures analyst
first surprise : some head-haircuts !
Yet the same remark when speaking about'peplums' and other « historical » pictures
a priori concerning physical aspects,and oblivions of proper history + the foreigner is focalized on,but not the « autochtone » : as in other picturesabout Vikings and about « french » Normans, theAnglo-Saxons are compared to current british people – it isforgetting that the freshly settled Anglo-Saxons of Northumbry,Yorkshire and East-Anglia were very dominantly pure northernGermanics ; they had pushed the most of the Celts and takentheir place ; the today mixture of East England, that is farfrom erasing completely the initial differences between West and EastBritain at these times, isless germanic than the 8°Century one but still more germanic than inwestern and southern Britain – so middle statured middle pigmentedpeople with well crossed visages of today Britain big towns is a verybad choice to evocate the Anglo-Saxons of that ancient time –concerning visages, we can say also, to choose some blond people tomake Vikings more credible is not the solution : there are facesthat don't pass as natural in Scandinavia, even if we know that someVikings bands came from Western Norway, less light pigmented and morebrachycephalic, more variated concerning visages, than the averageNorth people (before 20° C. end emigrations!)
concerningNormans-Saxons pictures, we can say the same – Normans were not« latin lovers » (they were a mix of Celts, Germansand Scandinavians more than true southern people) and eastern Saxonsof Nottinghamshire even if less pure than 2 centuries earlier werenot britannic citizens!)
otheraspect : in battles, the collective victory was not obtained bya 100% individual fights winned only by the victorious side, as inmovies -
justa thank to this « Vikings » pictures set : even if avague « biker style » (not « beaker ») seemshanging over, they avoided the bodybuilding training for their men ofthe North (I have in mind these overswelled X-rays tanned and blondwigged Vikings of the picture where played Kirk Douglas and TonyCurtis in the last century: a shame !
not too fall at first sight, and I'mnot a pictures analyst
first surprise : some head-haircuts !
Yet the same remark when speaking about'peplums' and other « historical » pictures
a priori concerning physical aspects,and oblivions of proper history + the foreigner is focalized on,but not the « autochtone » : as in other picturesabout Vikings and about « french » Normans, theAnglo-Saxons are compared to current british people – it isforgetting that the freshly settled Anglo-Saxons of Northumbry,Yorkshire and East-Anglia were very dominantly pure northernGermanics ; they had pushed the most of the Celts and takentheir place ; the today mixture of East England, that is farfrom erasing completely the initial differences between West and EastBritain at these times, isless germanic than the 8°Century one but still more germanic than inwestern and southern Britain – so middle statured middle pigmentedpeople with well crossed visages of today Britain big towns is a verybad choice to evocate the Anglo-Saxons of that ancient time –concerning visages, we can say also, to choose some blond people tomake Vikings more credible is not the solution : there are facesthat don't pass as natural in Scandinavia, even if we know that someVikings bands came from Western Norway, less light pigmented and morebrachycephalic, more variated concerning visages, than the averageNorth people (before 20° C. end emigrations!)
concerningNormans-Saxons pictures, we can say the same – Normans were not« latin lovers » (they were a mix of Celts, Germansand Scandinavians more than true southern people) and eastern Saxonsof Nottinghamshire even if less pure than 2 centuries earlier werenot britannic citizens!)
otheraspect : in battles, the collective victory was not obtained bya 100% individual fights winned only by the victorious side, as inmovies -
justa thank to this « Vikings » pictures set : even if avague « biker style » (not « beaker ») seemshanging over, they avoided the bodybuilding training for their men ofthe North (I have in mind these overswelled X-rays tanned and blondwigged Vikings of the picture where played Kirk Douglas and TonyCurtis in the last century: a shame !