They were discussing dreadlocks on Stormfront, and someone mentioned Germanic warriors were supposed to have worn them.
My reply was:
“I can imagine Germanic warriors developing dreadlocks for battle.”
“But what you do to yourself to look so bad you scare a Roman Legionary is not necessarily a lovely style.”
#1 by Pain on 05/19/2007 - 1:21 pm
The author was confusing dreadlocks with knots, a kind of loose braiding.
The Germanic warriors grew their hair long, but tied it back out of their faces. Each tribe had a distinctive style of knotting their hair, a style which became a uniform way to tell which tribe they belonged to.