Historical Hairstyles: The Real Hairstyles Worn By Viking Women
- Posted on 07 July, 2018
- Hair Styling
- By Anonymous
Doing your hair like a stylized Viking shieldmaiden looks awesome and has gotten really popular. But how did the real Viking women wear their hair all those centuries ago? Watch this tutorial to find out!
Historical/archeological sources used:
- http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue42/6...
- http://rp-www.arts.usyd.edu.au/arts/me...
- https://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/bitstr...
- https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&l...
- https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handl...
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_...
Difficulty: Easy - Moderate
Hair Length: at least armpit length
Materials: long string of cord/yarn, hairstick (optional)
Skills needed: English braid
Time cost: 5-40 minutes
ideal hair type: any
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Hey welcome back to the subscribers out there and, if you're new to this channel, it's great to see you here, we're all kinds of hair nerds, focusing on learning the styles from TV shows and movies, as well as some historical hairstyles, and that's what this videos gon Na be about today, I've already made a video discussing the real hair styles of ancient male warriors, such as the Vikings, but Viking women have really interesting hair as well. We don't have a ton of evidence about the prevalence of female Viking warriors, let alone how their hair looked. But women in more domestic roles also wore their hair in interesting ways, and we do have evidence that we know this from the art they left behind, as well as some odd bodies that have been found in northern era and, like my last video I'll, be showing Some pictures of those bodies so be forewarned about that now, if you're ready, let's learn how to do some: Viking braids, the real ones, let's start with the easy style. First, in essence, it's just a knot tied into the hair historians called this shape. The Irish ribbon knot when women are depicted in Viking art. They almost always have this hairstyle. There may be a few different reasons for why this is perhaps it was extremely fashionable at a certain period of time. Alternatively, this knot shape may not have been worn everyday by everyone, but instead was an iconic ceremonial hairstyle, like the stereotypical double horned Viking helmet was another option, is that these depictions are not supposed to be everyday women, but recognizable Valkyries or specific female deities. Even more abstracts, these hairstyles could be entirely symbolic, as knots may symbolize the binding effect of magic or the eternal aspect of love in Viking culture. At any rate, it's not a hard style to do so, who wouldn't want to at least try it out? I'M going to show you the low ponytail version of this first, but it could also be made higher up on the head. First gather all your hair into a low ponytail and hold it together with one hand, then wrap the tail of hair over the back of this hand, so that you make a loop in the hair. Stick two fingers of your other hand through a loop coming from the opposite side and grab the rest of the tail of hair between these fingers. Then pull the tail through the loop tug. This knot tight against your head, and that's really all there is to it. This knot probably won't hold all day, especially if you have straight or slippery hair, but it'll keep your hair out of your face for a while, thinner and curl. Your hair will last longer in this knot. If you want more lasting power, you can put an extra twist in the loop of hair before pulling the tail through the hole. You'Ll just need longer, hair for this at least halfway down your back. This is the same knot hairstyle that I showed in my easy hair stick bun tutorial, which means you can also use a hair. Stick to hold this knot. Tight hair sticks are not uncommon, finds in Viking archaeological digs, so this would still be historically accurate if not completely matching the carved iconography. You can also make the knot higher on the head, as well as early episodes of the Vikings TV show, features. Ciggies hair done in this way, just be warned that gravity applies to hair styles if the knot is up high and not resting its weight completely. On the top of your head, then, the weight will pull it slowly down the back of your head and pull out quicker. Now, let's move to some more direct inspiration for biking. Women'S hairstyles meet the Arden woman, or at least the back of her head, also known as the bread Mo's woman. This is a bog body that was found in hints dead, denmark. Her body has been dated to around 1400 BCE, which is definitely before the official Viking Age, but would be a cultural ancestor of the Viking peoples. So let's try out this crown. Braid style. First divide your hair into two low pigtails cut two lengths of rough cord. That is two to three times the length of your hair course. We'Ll yarn or suede is ideal. You want this to have friction and not slip off the hair easily, with each length of cord tie the middle around each ponytail and knot it tightly then braid, each ponytail in a three strand, braid pattern clip the ends of the braids or hold them in your Mouth momentarily, while you wrap the long ends of the cord around the braid, wrap all the way to the ends of the braid and then tie off the braid with these ends. So, instead of using a modern-day ponytail, holder, you're, essentially just tying off the ends of the braids with a couple nuts using this cord do this with both ponytails next wrap the braids up the sides of your head and over the top. If your hair is long, keep wrapping the braids in a circle formation at the back of the head, if your hair is shorter and can't reach all the way to the top of your head, make a smaller circle at the back of your head. You just want the ends of the braid to at least be crossing a bit with a hair clip or hair stick if you're a stickler for accuracy hold these braids in place momentarily then, with a large knitting needle and a third length of cord. That'S roughly three feet long, so these braids to your hair stretch the middle of the cord across the lower back of your head, and so each of these ends through the braid, as well as some hair near your scalp. So like this all along the braid. Until you almost run out of cord so the other length of cord up the braid on the other side of your head as well, this is called hair taping and is actually a very comfortable way to secure braids in place on your head. If you don't like pins and is very common throughout history, when you have just a little bit of length left in the ends of these cords, either tuck them in under the braid to finish or tie them together if they can reach each other tuck any extra Length of the cord under your braids and you're set with this ancient crown braid hairstyle. Finally, let's do the famous Elling women, another bog body found in Denmark. She is also technically pre Viking age dating to around 280 BCE. But again, this is the same people that eventually became the Vikings Viking, really isn't even an ethnic descriptor anyways as the verb Viking good evening, better means to voyage anyways. The Elling woman's body is famous for how long and well preserved her Harriet's all 90 centimetres of it. So, let's try out this style first place your fingers right above your ears and draw a part on either side of your head up to your crown gather. All the hair in front of this part make a three strand braid, with this hair, holding the braid close to the back of your head, as you form it when your hands get down to the same height as your back hairline. Add in the rest of your hair to this braid, in other words, start doing a French braid, but only add in new hair to each strand once and make sure all the rest of your hair is added in when you do so after this keep braiding. Normally, all the way to the ends of your hair, there is no hair tie on the end of this braid, so to keep it from completely falling out. The braid is wrapped up a bit on the head. First, tuck the tail of the braid behind the length that stretches between the point where it started and the point where you added in new hair, pull the tail of the braid out the other side and then wrap it once more around this base, braid pulling it Out the other side, again, you can now let go of the length of braid. The strands may unravel a bit, but the wrapping should keep the general form of the style in place. This is how the Elling woman was found, but it's also possible that on her last morning, her braid was completely wrapped up in order to make a bun and in the events leading to her death and burial, the braid unwound itself a bit, it's impossible to say Definitively her death was pretty violent, though she was hung as a possible human sacrifice and then driven into the bog with stakes, so one might expect some jostling of her hair. So if you don't like the hanging part of the braid, you can wrap it up. All the way and have a feasible excuse for doing so, and there you have it three ancient women's hairstyles that help you imagine what the real Viking women would have looked like. I want to thank my subscribers, and especially my patreon supporters, for making this video possible. You can subscribe as well for new video updates or become a patron and get extra perks like deciding what future video should be or personalized tutorial requests. You guys are awesome, and I hope you have fun with these historical hair looks see you next time.
Comments
Lux Borealis: "Wow, that hairstyle is really unique, what was your inspiration?" "A swamp corpse."
Maddie: As a Native American archaeologist, I wanted to say how impressed I am with your warnings for bodies in your videos like these. I've met professional archaeologists who don't bother with it, and that you do is a testament to your character and research abilities. Please keep up the good work! (If anyone is wondering, a lot of culturals have strict death taboos that would make seeing images of dead bodies very upsetting and harmful, in addition to people who may just be uncomfortable with seeing bodies in general. I don't have a problem it, but I know people who do, so it's very awesome to see the time and care being taken to warn people!)
HilBG: style goals: have such great hairstyles that someone makes tutorials for them hundreds of years later based on my bog-preserved body
Favorite Quill: I would totally love other ancient hairstyle videos! For example, Ancient Greek or Celtic styles would be really cool
LJ Chenoweth: Other girls: My new hair is inspired by Kyle Jennars hair cut! Me: *bOg bODiE*
Kirsten Paff: You know it's going to be an interesting hair tutorial when it comes with bog body warnings.
Jett: Yay! Another fantastic, historically accurate, well researched & archeologically based hairstyling tutorial, which is also entertaining & easy to follow. Thank you once again, for all you do for these wonderful videos & your channel~
thecelestialriot: I happened across your channel while going down a recommendation rabbit hole. I'm happy say that, as a life long tomboy that never wore anything other than a simple bun, you've inspired me to start trying different styles. Somewhere between your easily understood instructions and your patient handwork, I found myself braiding right along with you. Thank you for all the work you put into these videos. I hope you have a wonderful day!
A H: I especially like that you demonstrate how to do styles on yourself. It can be frustrating to try to find out how to do a hairstyle only to find videos that have someone doing the style on someone else. It still takes lots of practice! I'm getting so many ideas for things to do with my very fine hip length hair. Thanks!!
Mademoiselle E: I love the fact that you're searching for historical sources, it's very important to (I'm an archaeologist, so for me it's really important).
tehstormie: The second style uses a *tapestry needle*, a blunt needle with a large eye. You can get them at sewing and craft stores as well as online
CarqlineCupcake: Im danish and its so creepy bc i tie my hair back in a knot but i have never been taught to do that... hmmm viking genes
Joonha Shcal: So I as a dude with long hair will look like a valkyrie. A demi goddess of death who brings the souls of the brave fallen to Valhalla. Sounds good.
dani c: Thank you so so much for this!!! You have no idea how long I have been searching YouTube for actual ancient Norse/Viking hairstyles. You are amazing and I love the technical research and informative image aspect of your videos as well. I just found you with your Viking warrior video but I am a sub now for life!!
Emily Falk: I've actually been doing a slight variation on the Arden brain hairstyle for years for myself, all unknowing of the historical context! Speaking as someone with experience doing that hairstyle, I've got a tip. When you start the braids, aim them not down or away from your head, but in, towards the opposite side of your head. Assuming your hair is long enough, this will give you a continuous ring around your head. It also looks smoother and feels more comfortable. I cheat a little, and use tiny elastics at the end of my braids, and pin or clip them in place while I sew the ribbon in, taking the pins out when I'm done. This really is a very comfortable and lightweight hairstyle. I've fallen asleep wearing it, in fact! And I've got a very sensitive scalp.
Omniscient Nescience: As someone with an inch long pixie cut (think Rosemary's baby) will I ever need this? No. Am I still gonna watch all these videos. Absolutely.
Silver: I wore the third one hiking, and it was great! Kept my hair (which falls to my thighs) contained, braided, and untangled! I highly recommend using it if you've got long hair and are intending to go hiking, esp. with a backpack. It's also really nice because it's easy to explain to other people, so if you're not good at braiding behind your own head, you can tell someone how to do the braid, and wrap it yourself :D
Béatrice Andersson: I loooove those historical hairstyles! They look unique and actually wearable (with a few adjustements) Can’t wait to try them !
augustynowicz1: Im norwegian and i was tought in school viking women who were married had their hair up or braided to symbolize their status.
Phoebe C H: This is way easier than I thought! You did a great job explaining. Your hair color is gorgeous, btw! :)
Bloody Soprano: The historically accurate hair videos are my absolute favorite. Please keep making these!!! I love the old European route that you’ve been taking! If you run out of ideas I think Native American traditional hair styles would be a fascinating route to take as well!
Kay Paperfrog: Oh my god, this was so interesting! This makes me appreciate living in a time period where we have bobby pins and elastics. The last hairdo was definitely my favourite, I might try it out today!
Sheireen: I love how much research you put into these
MrsBrit1: Amazing video! I love the ancient hairstyles! They can look so intricate, yet are often quite easy to accomplish. I will definitely be trying the last one. I often wear the "Valkyrie knot", usually with a stick, because my hair is too slippery to stay.
Robertine Buckley: This video was the first I ever saw of yours. I have now watched more and I just wanted to say thank you! I have always had long hair (past my waist) and in my younger years I was picked on for my scraggly, unkempt locks. Now that long hair is a popular style, I am now picked on as a young adult for my, still, messy mane. Your hair tutorials are so easy to follow, I have been able to successfully execute many...Thank you so much! It may sound silly but after spending much of my life not feeling pretty, learning some of the styles you have taught have made me feel confident and beautiful. Thank you thank you! Instead of looks of 'what happened to your hair?' I now get compliments of 'who did your hair?' I can't thank you enough. I feel pretty
floral starlight: I reeeeallly love the arden braid with the cords !! My hair is really straight so I've never been able to keep braids pinned on the top of my head withouth them slipping. Sewing them in with a cord seems like a great solution and also super cute !
Fiona MG: I love that you actually do a lot of research, and not only about the hairstyles but also about the techniques. I really liked the first video on this topic but this one is even better.
burpolicious: I've never seen these videos, but it popped up in my recommendations today. I watched with surprised interest with the Elling woman's style because this is almost how I do my hair every day for years now. I work a physical job, and my long hair often falls into my face, so I tried to french braid it but it fell apart by midday. I found it was sturdier if I braided it half way, then just added in the rest just as shown here. It is practical and stays in place all day. (Even sturdier if not freshly washed.) I had always been tempted to loop it around through the first half as you demonstrated, but I thought it would draw some weird looks out in public. (I might try it now?) Still, I can certainly see why the Elling woman (and I imagine her peers) would have worn it this way. Very nice to have this little daily thing to share in common with women of 1400BC. Thank you for the informative video. :)
Ida Medby: This was such a brilliant, and incredibly well made video. I often used a version of the elling hairstyle for more than a decade before realizing that it was a hairstyle worn by my ancestors as well (I only learned about it as I began studying archaeology), and I still use it to this day, only now I've actually found that a lot of the original tools used are far superior to certain modern items (wooden hairpins and leather cords both look and feel so much better tbh) As my hair is about 70cm, this hairstyle has always been a very useful way of securing my hair tightly, for instance when going for a run, on long hiking trips and for camping. I highly recommend it for anyone with very long, smooth hair that tends to quickly escape ordinary updues, even when using tons of elastics and bobbypins, especially if you're living an active lifestyle.
Rebecca M: Love this series! Thank you for continuing it and the addition research you do to make it as accurate as possible.
NadinaStryhn: As a dane I am SO impressed with this! You really did your research well. My grandmother used to style my hair in a Ellinge fletning (Elling Braid) when I was a child. I often style my hair in a Iron age four strand braid called a slyngning/ to slynge. It is very different from other four strand braids. Here is a link explaining it with yarn : https://www.skoven-i-skolen.dk/content/bånd-og-snore . It is in danish, but there are plenty of pictures <3
Vivian Pinto: I used to do the first one a lot when I had longer hair I’m loving the historical hairstyles, maybe you could do a Greek one? Amazing content
Snowbird: Sometimes I wish I had normal hair instead of dreads :D Maybe I can try to kind of do this with my dreads. :D Actually worked with some of the got styles too. We'll see. Thanks for the video, as always. I actually follow you for years, kinda proud of that tbh. :D <3
Florence ___: Great video idea and I hope you'll do more of these historical ones. I absolutely love you tutorials!
Ilex Opaca: Hey, awesome video as always! I do want to say that we have evidence of at least one probable Viking woman warrior (originally thought to be a high-ranking male warrior by archaeologists for decades because of her burial artifacts, but reassessed in 2017 as female based on her skeletal structure). It's actully opened up a lot of cool debate on the importance of forensic archaeology versus making assumptions based on our own cultural preconceptions as well as Viking gender roles. I know that doesn't make for much evidence, but I thought you'd find it interesting! (Also, I've got to try the Elling Woman's style. It looks way too amazing.)
Yoko Tsuno: I did it with my long thin curly hair and it worked great! I ended up making a bun with the braid, pin it down and loose some baby hair around the face and it looks lovely! Thanks for this tutorial, it was clear and easy to follow :)
level one goblin: Okay, so I'm not the only one who puts their hair in a knot when they have no hairtie. My friends look at me like I'm a madwoman.
Diekje: You can use oils or fats to secure the elling woman braid. Other bog bodies had this to have their hair secured
sunflowerthebunbunbunny: Can you please do some female (long hair) easy Celtic or Irish hairstyles?
Evae: I tried #2 and I guess it was more successful than my attempts at most other styles! It was nowhere near as good as yours, because my hair is shorter and you actually know what you’re doing, but with a little creativity (there were a lot of pins at first, and I used garden twine) I managed to get my hair on top of my head in a braid. Great tutorial!
Call Me Mom: That Ellingwoman style is great. I have used it since seeing it here and it keeps the shorter hairs that always escape from regular braids out of my eyes. I use an elastic and I don't put the lower braid through the upper braid, as mine is too thick and that pulls on the top braid too much which gives me a headache. Thank you so much for sharing it.
Juci Shockwave: I love these ancient hair styles. Even more I really love the music used to teach us about this. This is really hands on History that I enjoy doing with my students. Of course they practice doing these on dolls to avoid hurting themselves or others. Schools today seem to be avoiding hands on History lessons. God forbid kids actually learn something fun using their hands rather than just listening and reading about it.
Sarah: Just found this, LOVE IT!! I’m a huge history buff and this is just incredibly accurate,well put together, well researched, just awesome!
empressofslavs: Oh, so beautiful! I love Viking culture and the history of them. As other hairstyles to try out, Slavic hair would be really fun to see! <3
TheNinjaInConverse: These historic hair guides are so awesome! I can't wait for more:)
Laura's Life: I would love to see you do some Serena Joy hairstyles from the Handmaids Tale and Outlander ones. These were amazing.
Gail Fattori: I really love these looks. We recently found our family connection to the Vikings. It's very exciting to learn all aspects, especially this because my daughter is a cosmetologist. Great tutorial. Thanks.
nugget: This was really helpful thank you I've been trying to find a quick tie alternative for my hair as it dosent hold well in buns I'm definitely going to use some of the more complicated ones at some point. Also you look amazing how is your skin so clear?!
Spicy Noodles: "Gravity applies to hairstyles"... Me- omg this explains so much
Christa: I love how you researched this and created actual hairstyles from actual ancient women, even if they were a bit before the time period
Redhead Rapunzel: For my birthday last year I got a DNA test. I found I have some Viking ancestors. My mama used to tie her hair in a knot and she used to do my hair with the braids and yarn! So amazing! Love your stuff!
Sophia Ndidi: These videos are so helpful for my historical fiction novels! Especially when I have to describe _how_ the character does her hair.
SaintKellicious: just found your channel, love the attention to detail and that you're pulling from so many types of sources in your videos(movies, tv shows, and even historical hairstyles). while my hair may be wild and thick and curly and not conducive to plaiting, i love to see how the hairstyles were made! thanks for your time!
Dazmarose: Love these historically accurate hairstyle videos!
Chelsea Frances: I love all the history behind these hairstyles as well! They are so great! I tried doing a Viking hair tutorial too ☺️
Wendy Grandine: Love historical styles! Also brilliant that for 2/3 of these you don't even need anything to do the styles- perfect for me as I love doing stuff with my hair but don't have any products to do it with.
Lærke Julie Lindqvist: Thank you for taking your time to study the history. Means a lot to those of us who care about our ancestry and constantly see it misrepresented
Freja Bruus: Lovely with some styles based on findings! As a reenactor, I wish I could do the first, but my hair only just fits through the knot, because of how thick it is :/ However, I have heard that not using shampoo makes it easier to hold these styles, which makes sense.
Lithostoic: I've been watching all your videos lately! So inspiring because we have very similar hair type. I'm so used to seeing styles on thick, textured hair, that look totally different on my thinnish, straightish hair.
Lucy Biddle: I love historical hairstyles - I've got really long hair and love to style it but so many styles need blow-drying or straightening or loads of hairspray or little clips or fall down if you do anything remotely active. Historical women had no time for that shit and neither do I! The last one in this video in particular looks super nice on me ☺️
Emma MacGregor: LOVE it when you recreate authentic ancient styles!
The Edwardian Writer: Awesome as always! And hair taping is one of my favourite methods of keeping up crown braids, so very cool to see it represented in the ancient past too.
N. S.: I love these intricat historically accurate styles. And your gorgeous, shiny hair gives me serious redhead envy lol... very beautiful!
AzureRavenWitch: Oh man. I love some of these hairstyles! I tried the knot immediately, but sadly, it won't work with my hair. It's definitely long enough (past mid back), but it's too thick for this. And I already know I wouldn't be able to do the knotted braid. Do you have any more style suggestions/tips for long, thick hair? I'd love to do more of these hairstyles. Thank you!
Chelsea B: As an anthropology student just looking for a simple fine hair style video. WOW! Not at all what I was expecting and you have actual links to this historical information! Thank you this was fun for both my brain and my hair!!! Subscribed and can't wait for more videos!
EmilyWearsGlasses: Oh my god I did it! Yours is the first historical hair tutorial I’ve ever tried and it worked!
Eric Maul: I love how well researched your historical hairstyles are! Its awesome.
Eileen Webb: Thank you for the video. I appreciate your research. While archaeological evidence has yet to confirm that the Vikings had horned helmets, I have horns on my MOTORCYCLE helmet. Great fun!
Amanda Forrester: Hi! I want to let you know that your amazing videos are the reasons that I decided to start growing my hair out, when I had kept it in a pixie cut for YEARS. I'm looking forward being able to have such pretty braids like yours! Anyway I know it takes practice, and I'm trying, but my hair has gotten pretty long now, so I thought that I'd be able to start. They almost never look like yours tho. I'm wondering if the problem is that my hair is a LOT thicker than yours? Also I always seem to have hair sticking out everywhere, does that mean I need to let my hair grow out more before I work on learning the braids? Are there any specific hair products you can think of for someone who has really thick hair (sprays, etc) that might help with keep the braid together? I'm really sorry for the stupid questions! I grew up in a house with all guys and no mom, so I don't know a lot of 'girly' things because of that. In any case I freaking LOVE your channel, and I will keep at it, and I'm looking forward to more videos from you, whenever you do them! Much love.
Prímules Viatgeres: i absolutely love your videos and the effort you put into research<3
Ann Seibert: This is awesome and looks like something I might be able to attempt! Thanks for the video! ❤️
The Edwardian Writer: Awesome as always! And hair taping is one of my favourite methods of keeping up crown braids, so very cool to see it represented in the ancient past too.
Carroll Anne M: I love learning this kind of stuff!!! I just recently found out my great great grandfather was born in Ireland, my great grandfather, one of my great great grandfather’s sons, was born in Canada and my grandfather, one of my great grandfather’s sons, was born in America. That’s as far as I go for now into my ancestry.
Medea Worbs: I Really Love all of your Videos ans especially these historical ones. They're great! Have you seen the new trailer for season 5b of Vikings yet? And will you do more of the new looks like Hvitserks new One or the Rope braid with all those detailed smaller braids that Lagertha wears? I think it would be awesome - even though there aren't many images of all the new styles yet, unfortunatly
Alison Wonderland: Fascinating, and beautifully done, and you look gorgeous! I guess one factor in the hair styles people wore is that they wouldn't be using shampoo and conditioner every day so they'd want something practical, that kept dirty hair off the face and kept it in a neat shape.
Lauri Barnes: Love this! I recently learned that I am a direct descendant of Ragnar Lotbrok (of Vikings...yeah, he was a real guy), so I am fascinated by all things viking. I have long, silvery white hair and I'm going to have a lot of fun with these styles!
Magdalena: Hi! I subscribed to your channel a few weeks ago and I'm in love with it. I saw a hairdo in the series "Versailles" worn by the character Claudine Masson. I thought it looked pretty cool, but I can't seem to be able to copy it correctly, and I wanted to copy it for a wedding. You can see it from minute 17:00 in S1E2. Just if you want to, of course, and if you see this post. Any thoughts on what I could be doing wrong or missing?
AuroraLalune: my mom used to do my hair similarly to the last one but leaving it down with a hair tie holding the end when I was little. She would say that knots meant different things and that she'd teach me one day. She never got to teach me what they meant. She died. Even still, it was nice to see it on the back of someone elses head. When I was little I just called it "braid inside braid" and thought it was awesome. If she tried knoting it beyond that it never stayed because I was THAT kid. As this was also before internet was anything but a military frequency not even resembling what it is now I think it's safe to say she didn't learn it from youtube tutorials. i never learned most of the knots or how to do them. I'm not concerned with keeping to historical accuracy so much as how to do what I should already know how to do in context of today and what's available now but thankyou. This go around I randomly said why not and clicked a video and saw this. I honestly have never studied that part of history. I get so caught up in facts and stories... I never realized those knots and hairstyles she talked about were that old. Feels a little more I should don that braid like she used to do for me more often now. Usually I do a lazy single braid. Never cared much for beauty of the outward sort nor for meeting such standards society has for it. My rambling aside, Thankyou for making this video. She died when I was still pretty young. Maybe second grade? I didn't know how old the traditions were. I guess now I should get back to honoring them even if simply in private.
More Gardening: Awesome video! I thought you might be interested to know, since you’re a stickler for accuracy, that the needle you used in the second hair style is called a darning needle. A knitting needle are the needles you actually knit with.
rascylin calleros: I was watching this to do braids on my wife. I feel like I got a tutorial and a history lesson all in one. Thank you!
Citlalli Valles: These are pretty fun. As a note on the first style: it doesn't work on thick hair, unless it's also extraordinarily long. A coarse texture definitely helps. I like the braided bun style best, as it works quite well on my hair. I need to try that taping technique sometime.
Rag Elnyg: I guess you don't care that much about my life but each evening when brushing my teeth and each morning when washing my face, I had a repetitive very stupid issue. My hair being everywhere. When human beings have the same issue, they generally have a quite clever solution when they have long hair: to use a hairband. But I was all the time forgetting and repeatedly thinking like an idiot in front of my sink: "Oh, crap, I (again!!!) forgot my hairband." And my hairbands were quite merrily living a life of their own between my room and the sink for my roommates' despair what could lead them to tell me one day: "why the hell aren't you doing like other dudes: having your hair short." Now I can do an Irish ribbon knot. Thanks a million for solving this problem which was quite heavy on my everyday routine and now, I can feel safe my time in this planet won't come to a sudden end for hairband linked reasons! :D
Bronwyn Bear: Thank you so much Silvousplaits and everyone commenting for so much awesome information, I am so deeply inspired! I finally have short hair and yet inspired to experiment!!
Charlotta R: Love the tutorials! Could you do one on "Sybil Hallow" from the second series of The Worst Witch? :D
dresden: 5:46 that's not a knitting needle, it's a tapestry needle, sometimes used to weave in yarn ends in knitting, crocheting, etc. Knitting needles don't have a hole in them to pass yarn through. By the way, love this video. Reminds me of the works of Janet Stephens.
Ariel Anderson: This was a great video! I was directed here by an article on Medievalist.net and I was not disappointed! I was wondering with your sources if you had more specific reference points, especially in those massive volumes that are 500 pages +. I'm a medievalist who specializes in Norse literature, and I have to say hair wasn't something I'd given much consideration to before. Now I must investigate further!
Connie H: Your hair color is beyond beautiful!!!! Love it! Very interesting video too. I'm loving historical makeup and hair videos as of late. This is the first one I've seen that covers Vikings!
minasees: i subscribed 10 seconds into the video! wonderfully made video. thank you for teaching us about REAL history and showing us accurate hairstyles!
Witchy Poo: If my Danish boyfriend & I get married we’re planning on wearing traditional Viking clothes & I want my hair done like the second hairstyle. I really love the idea of showing my appreciation for his culture & history in this way.
Laura-Lee Rahn: What a great idea for a YouTube channel. Plus, you are doing your OWN hair. Not very easy. I haven't had any major concern for my hairstyles or hair I could actually do things to for 20 years, but definitely enjoying you using your ingenuity, creativity and love for history to inform and entertain us. I'm a new subscriber on a topic I never thought I would be. Looking forward to more. Well done. LL ♀️
Wanda Metcalf: That's awesome! I never really thought about how people in the past wore their hair. It's cool to see someone recreate them.
Kymela Tejasi: I really like these styles done without hairpins and clips. My hair doesn't hold those, but it will hold the old world leather and threads! Thanks for these historical tutorials!
Leslie: I've done the first one with the knot so many times, without knowing it was any sort of historic or actual thing. I just wanted a way to get my hair back out of my face while working/crafting/whatever. Fun to know it's historic now =P I've done it at sca events without knowing XD
justanorthernlight: It's interesting, on the Tollund Man website, and other tutorials I've seen of the Elling Woman hairstyle, rather than french braiding the bottom it's two rope braids that are then braided together into the 3 strand braid from the top, for a combined 7 strand braid, and it seems to be fastened by sort of looping/knotting one of the strands at the end. There is a diagram of it on the Tollund Man site, I'm really curious where you got the french braid version.
Elentarien: Really fascinating. Thank you for sharing. I wish I had the hair to actually try/use these. (I had to chop mine due to health issues. waaaah!!! Hate having short hair. Ugh!) Meanwhile - maybe my characters can use them in my stories. Not quite as good, but hey. :)
Black Aliss: Just wore the Elling woman's braid for today. Most comfortable and lasting hairsyle I have tried. Love it and will continue using it. ❤
Az: Wow historical hairstyles are so cool! I love this series Please do it more!!
Rebeca Indira: my hair is finally long enough to be put in fancy braided styles and i can't wait to try out all of your tutorials!!
Kari DoRego: The Elling braid is my newest work hairstyle. I love the lack of pins needed!!
Darek Baird: Okay, so I've never had to deal much with my hair when practicing HEMA or being an idiot. But how well would you suppose that Arden Braid would hold up while say running around and being a fantasy adventure character? I was looking for a female hairstyle that would allow a woman to comfortably put on chainmail and wear a style of helmet that has chainmail from the nose down. Now she's wearing a padded cap which I suppose would help hold it together but basically I'm just asking how well it would hold together over time.