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A major new exhibition is reviving the Norse seafarers' iconic image as rampagers and pillagers..
The Vikings’ Bad Boy Reputation Is Back With a Vengeance
Tom Jerso is a fairly fearsome sight to see lunging at you with a yard-long steel sword.
What story does this image inspire for you?
He is not only large, he is impressively decorated. Jerso is wearing these clothes: brown leather boots tied with strips of leather thong, a long brown tunic made of coarse cloth, and a brown woolen kirtle—the knee-length sleeved shirt that tenth-century Norsemen used to pull over their heads.
His sheepskin-lined scabbard is brown, too. He looks like a GIANT Advil.
Here at the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen, Jerso and his fellow Viking re-enactors sing ancient ballads, exchange oaths and rampage (politely), weapons glinting.
With an action well-honed by experience, and a hand well protected by glove, another Viking—this one calling himself Ragnar Lodbrok (Hairy Breeches)—shoulders a broadax. His cloak, fastened by an iron brooch, is cornflower blue; his leggings are tucked into periwinkle pantaloons, craftily ripped at the k