• A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world
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    Stupid sexy Danes. This’ll show em for not wallowing in filth.

    Note: many accounts from Native Americans circa 1500CE describe Europeans as being absolutely disgusting, stinky, pockmarked, dirty savages.

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      One of the dismissals from natives to Portuguese colonizers was “go bathe”. It’s still used to this day in Brazil when you’re fed up with someone’s antics.

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      The Aztecs, it’s said, would follow Cortés and his soldiers with burning incense to mask their smell (though that might be hearsay).

  • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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    Dang, what a world when taking a bath once a week, and occasionally changing your clothes was the height of attractiveness, effective enough to undermine the chastity of wives. The husbands must have been some sticky, slovenly bastards.

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    It is funny that one of the main ways they can tell there were Vikings in an area was due to the number of combs. Vikings would carry several combs made from different materials.