Average Viking man was about 170 cm (5’7”) tall....

[Remobz]

Taken from here....

http://listverse.com/2009/04/21/top-10-misconceptions-about-the-vikings/


Anyone watch the Vikings on History channel? Good show btw...


Hollywood and ourselves tend to forget that the average man/hero historically was "short" by today's standards. I am not saying all of them, but the MAJORITY of fighters and heroes in almost every battle you can think off 30 years and longer was considered "short" or shorter than 5 foot 8 for example. Spartacus time...Viking time....Braveheart time...medieval age...Pirate age....Napoleonic age...Civil war.....WW1..WW2...etc. etc.


The John Wayne and Dolph Lundgren types were in the minority.

Up yours Hollywood!!

 

[KeithTalent]

I bet they were pretty girthy though.

KT

 

[Mixolydian]

Damn manlets.

 

[soundforbjt]

Mel Gibson is short...he acted in Braveheart...

 

[Insomniator]

So your saying all I have to do to be average height is travel back in time and be a viking?

Why was I never told this!

 

[Atomic Playboy]

The average height for most of the US and western Europe is 5'10" today. John Wayne and Dolph Lundgren types are still the minority. We don't use tall or muscular people as heroes because they're just like everybody else, we use them specifically because they make normal people seem tiny. It's certainly possible that there were giant badass Vikings who embodied a hero archetype by seeming larger than life, despite the average height of Scandinavian men in the 11th century.

 

[Remobz]

I bet they were pretty girthy though.

KT

Good point. They were solid and tough people and I imagine with bigger bone structures than many of us today.

Pound for pound I imagine they were tough fighters and no easy pushovers.

 

[olds]

Liking the show so far. But Ragnor must be very loosely based on the "real" Ragnor.

 

[mizzou]

Some of england's kings were quite massive, even by today's standards. Peter the Great was nearly 7 ft tall.

Could you imagine how fucking huge these people seemed back then when the average height was so small?


Henry VIII

6'2'' 52" waist

Peter the Great
6'8'' , although reportedly very odd looking fellow.

 

[Geosurface]

 

[olds]

Good point. They were solid and tough people and I imagine with bigger bone structures than many of us today.

Pound for pound I imagine they were tough fighters and no easy pushovers.

I think they were just like us. Except the lived hard lives so they weren't pussies.

 

[olds]

Some of england's kings were quite massive, even by today's standards. Peter the Great was nearly 7 ft tall.

Could you imagine how fucking huge these people seemed back then when the average height was so small?


Henry VIII

6'2'' 52" waist

Peter the Great
6'8'' , although reportedly very odd looking fellow.

Alexander the Great = 5'7"

 

[mizzou]

I bet I could still toss' em though

 

[Mixolydian]

Alexander the Great = 5'7"

He would be considered a manlet in today's world, and thus shunned by society.

 

[Remobz]

He would be considered a manlet in today's world, and thus shunned by society.

Audie leon Murphy

 

[brianmanahan]

i bet shorty could singlehandedly stop a viking invasion

 

[TheSlamma]

Taken from here....

http://listverse.com/2009/04/21/top-10-misconceptions-about-the-vikings/


Anyone watch the Vikings on History channel? Good show btw...


Hollywood and ourselves tend to forget that the average man/hero historically was "short" by today's standards. I am not saying all of them, but the MAJORITY of fighters and heroes in almost every battle you can think off 30 years and longer was considered "short" or shorter than 5 foot 8 for example. Spartacus time...Viking time....Braveheart time...medieval age...Pirate age....Napoleonic age...Civil war.....WW1..WW2...etc. etc.


The John Wayne and Dolph Lundgren types were in the minority.

Up yours Hollywood!!

Hollywood yes.. ourselves? well, only idiots look to movies for their history lessons.

Middle School history should have informed most people the average Spartan was 5'5" 130lbs and vikings were nothing like any of the fictional crap either, most of the time they would attack wearing little to no armor so they could get in ransack the place and get out before a standing army came in. Herald Hardrada got his ass handed to him hard by the English.

 

[chalmers]

God I hate manlets.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Obama the Great is 6'1"

 

[JulesMaximus]

George the Dim is 6'0"

Edited because I liked SsupernovaE's wording better.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

<--- 5'7" true Aryan.

 

[Mixolydian]

God I hate manlets.

Who doesn't?

 

[Slew Foot]

Now if I could only go back in time

 

[SsupernovaE]

Obama the Great is 6'1"

And Bush II, aka George the Dim, is 6'.

 

[Fritzo]

Did they come from the land of ice and snow?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApxnAr6pRt0