Theres not a lot of proof that Vikings wore dreads. Non of those websites images have proof and its already been stated in many articles there isn’t. And the Celtics wore entirely different braids. Not Afro Textured and protective braids and neither did people from Greece.
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Dam we are back on this?(arguing about vikings)
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This whole debate ended a long time ago. Can’t we just agree to disagree? <3
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Because specific people in this community wants to say Vikings wore dreads with little proof. Just from someone saying it they believe it.
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I think you have a few misconceptions here. First of all, the Viking idea of wearing braids is quite a new phenomenon. Despite what a lot of people think, there’s very little historical evidence that they wore braids or dreads in the same way as African-inspired cultures do now. Apart from “that statue kinda looks like it’s wearing braids” and “that clump of hair has kinda dreaded”. This isn’t proof of historical basis, yet. Who knows? We could discover that in the future! But that’s not where the current origins come from.
Secondly, I’m confused as to why you list Celts and Irish as two separate things? The Irish culture is still the most heavily derived from the Celts in the world. Even the language, Irish Gaelic, came from Old Irish, which is a Celtic language! The only real places without Celtic origins would the the Viking settlements such as Dublin, Waterford and Cork. I can never remember the others, haha! But even then the native Irish people integrated with the Vikings and the Vikings learnt Old Irish.
Also, the braids being used on Episode right now are not like a lot of the braids used in most of the cultures you listed! I mean, I’d love to see braids from other cultures! But they don’t look the same because the hair has a different texture and so the braids wouldn’t have been able to keep as well on European hair. All European cultures have some kind of braiding in their history. It’s not rocket science to learn to braid. But the styles and the way they’re worn are heavily cultural. 
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Agreed. It popped up on the feed… so I answered. This IS a very old post , huh?
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Very 
I’m still waiting on the hairlines to be fixed though 
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The Native Americans and Ancient Egyptians he got right though.
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Yes, their hair was worn “like snakes”, but that could be many things! It is very amateurish and ridiculous for this article to imply that it is definitely dreads. There is very little proof that dreads were worn. That’s not to mention the historical bias of trying to other the “barbarian” cultures that they wanted to assimilate into their own. I mean, “hair like snakes” is quite scary imagery. And the fact that we have very little vernacular sources written by the celts means we only have a very biased source. The article doesn’t contain a lot of historical accuracy!
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I’m still confused on the Early Christians thing. Did they wear dreads? I never heard of that.
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most of what u said aren’t “historical facts”
this argument has been debunked so many times. leave it already.
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It’s a shame that @ShanniiWrites is silenced! She’s a history postgraduate student 
she’d be able to clear up the misconceptions!
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He did leave it already sadly. Putting up one article and think its facts.
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It made me laugh how the article had pictures of black people in it wearing the styles but it’s trying to prove others did.
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The thing is that a lot of the sources used (if I can even use that word) are really badly interpreted and ignore things like context, bias and ambiguity
I’m not sure about the early Christians thing. I don’t see any historical basis as to why they’d wear them!
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Perhaps this will help you decide in regards to early Christians and dreads…
I skimmed and I still see no mentions of dreads. What is this trying to prove?
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Oh wait nvm. 
Found it.
Shannii told me this:
Considering the fact that hair rots, we as historians don’t have the technology yet to prove if the Vikings did in fact have braids or dreads. The problem with cultures like the Celts and the Vikings is that there are very few written sources by them. Most of the info about them comes from other cultures. Like the Romans for the old Celts and the Irish Monks for the Vikings during the medieval times. And even the stuff we have? Well, it’s baised of course. And they scarecely wrote down their beauty regimens. Even pictures and statues have decayed to the point that we can’t really point out hairstyles. But we could discover new ways to find these things out in the future! If there are any academics out there who would really dedicate their time to the archaeology of dread locks, since none of these cultures have any history regarding dreads in the academic sense. We don’t have any documents to prove anything, so it would be foolish to imply that they had dreads or braids.
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I would suggest not skimming?
I can’t interpret the bible for you… It’s against my religion. I don’t have the authority to teach it.
But, I do know that the bible is a great historical text with loads of evidence in many things.