Why did the Vikings become synonymous with beards but other European cultures, such as the Celts, did not?

They actualy do, some pacific northwest peoples especially get very hairy.

Native American beardlessness is an exclusively cultural thing, Thomas Jefferson wrote pretty heavily about it.

Beta lowtest genetics

Prove it

/this

>5 legs

One of those isn't a leg, fuckboy.

The Celts don't? the Greeks arent?

>beards
>implying this is not a Victorian meme about the "noble wild" that made it into Hollywood

The modern concept of viking is greatly made up. It has been romanticized and glorified without a good reason, mainly for people that want to feel some pride from his ancestry but that lives in a country without the historic relevance of the rest of Europe.

Hence the blonde, bearded, muscular and fearless warrior is no more than a meme.

>Beards might seem like an odd target for taxation, but to Peter the Great (1672-1725)—Russia’s revolutionary Czar—facial hair was no laughing matter.

>Born in Moscow with the name Pyotr Alekseyvich Romanov on June 9, 1672, the young royal would—more than any other figure—be credited with the modernization of Russia. Feeling that his country’s culture, technology, and politics were anachronistically agrarian, Peter embarked upon a lengthy tour of Western Europe in 1697. During this trek, he took in such sights as Oxford University, the British Royal Mint, and the Dutch naval yard (en route, Peter also met a promising scientist by the name of Isaac Newton).

>After Peter’s triumphant return to Russia at the end of his European voyage in 1698, a joyous reception was thrown in his honor. In attendance were his commander of the army, his frequent second-in-command Fyodor Romodanovsky, and a host of assorted aides and diplomats. Suddenly, the crowd’s mood went from elation to horror as Peter unexpectedly pulled out a massive barber’s razor. As biographer Robert K. Massie writes, “After passing among his [friends] and embracing them… he began shaving off their beards” with his own hands! Given his political stature, none of his associates dared question this stunning turn of events. (His physical stature didn't hurt either: Peter stood an imposing 6’8”.)

>Hairless necks and faces were all the rage in the Western World, so the Czar initially ordered that all of his subjects (excluding clergy and peasants) must lose their face fuzz. So dedicated was Peter to his cause that he even instructed police officials to personally shave those who refused to comply on sight.

Nope. You're wrong.
The modern concept about vikings comes from arabic and english scholars of that time that described them. Check out Ahmad ibn Fadlan, the english bishop Grimskjell or the english scholar (despite the name) Olav Trygvassons text that describes the vikings in pretty much exact the way they are described today.

>(en route, Peter also met a promising scientist by the name of Isaac Newton).
newton had already proved his worth by this time, so this statement is dumb

vikinganswerlady.com/hairstyl.shtml

Maybe due to Celts not being synonymous with wearing beards, perhaps.

I don't know what you mean by "synonymous". Almost all European ancients up to medievil people's are usually depicted with beards. Its not like people think the Celts didn't have beards because they weren't vikings.

I remember reading somewhere that Celts were not considered adults until they had grown facial hair.

Insular Celts are the worst Celts

We produced these shaving razors in Britain around 300BC for the Romans, because we're fucking retards who don't know how to groom? We actually produced these razors and had no idea what they were, come to think of it, we had no idea how to develop metallurgy, the Romans did this for us from 2000BC onward.

WE

4 vaganhas

>Your statue is done sir
>What the fuck Yusef, there are 5 legs there! I swear i'm throwing you in a fucking river if Hammurabi allows me to. God, i hate laws.

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How to defeat a Gaul?

> hire Gauls to fight against him

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langobards tho

In Ireland at least, adults were expected to have full beards, while young men were expected to have sideburns or moustaches.

The English government in Ireland actually banned having a full, shaggy beard because it was considered to be something only Irish people did. There's a letter from a 16th century English official in Galway to a colleague in Dublin complaining that Irish people didn't taper or shape their beards and he thought it looked rather grotesque.

>Hammurabi
>if someone makes you a 5 legged statue, you as a retribution have to make him a 5 legged statue as well

Celts are syononymous with mustaches tho.

Not that guy but I'm a turk in northern europe and I'm far more hairy than any of my friends.
They will have atmost chest hair.

yes it does. Meds are hairy for humidity. How is a huge heavy thick long germanic beard going to help you in a hot humid Mediterranean climate

so scandinavians werent blond? hardened raiders and killers who fucking rowed over the north sea werent muscular?

>its been glorified and romanticised, therefore its entirely made up

is your logic

those are roman/greek hairstyles