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It is said that the Vikings used the skulls of their enemies as drinking vessels. This was done to as a form of intimidation, to make them appear even more fierce to the people they planned to conquer.
Recent research has found the drinking in skulls by vikings to be a myth. It is supposed to have emerged through a mistranslation of a Norse poetic metaphor (a kenning) where horns (drinking horns) were called "the skull's trees" (because horns "grow" from the skull like trees do from the ground). A modern-era translator, however, forgot the "tree" part and, perhaps out of wild imaginations about how savage the vikings were, rendered it as drinking skulls instead of drinking horns.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 8y agoOf course. The body requires water and they were human. Therefore they drank water.
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∙ 11y agoNo, drinking horns. Mistranslation.
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∙ 8y agoYes, the Vikings drank water.
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∙ 11y agocow horns
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