[SunkenCiv]

Grand Designs, Viking edition. A new report recreates some of the colours used by Vikings to decorate their houses, including ochre and charcoal pigments. (Photo: Sagnlandet Lejre)

[Architect of Avalon]

Wash your tables with the tears of your enemies.

[pepsi_junkie]

However, the archaeologists behind the report warn of some caveats: There are still few finds from the Viking Age, and there remains little to no pigment on those that do exist. Pigments could have been removed during excavations or by decay after hundreds of years of burial..

Yeah but there is art from the period and it shows people in rich greens, blues, reds. Not the ubiquitous shades of brown you see in movies of periods from the dark ages up to the renaissance.

[Ciexyz]

Every culture admires such rich hues.

[Army Air Corps]

Note to Self: Build a Mead Hall in the back yard.

[ETL]

[BitWielder1]

I never bought into the ramshackle buildings and drab primitive clothing they depicted in the "Viking" series.
I knew they could do better than that.

[Snickering Hound]

Don't skimp on the blood bowls.

[truth_seeker]

I have clear DNA evidence on both sides, to Nordic Haplogroups.

The DNA doe not yet, indicate clothing dye preferences.

Lots of “ssons,” but nary any “ssens.”

And that increases the chance, of dyes from Kievan Rus and Byzantine sources.