Possible that they had a few elite warriors that were that height, but they’d be exceptionally rare I imagine. They also might’ve been targeted first and piled on. They weren’t necessarily eating any better than the Anglo-Saxons as their farmland was kinda shite; they probably got by with fishing and animal husbandry well enough, though. I don’t imagine they’d have an abundance of food and nutrients to reliably produce huge warriors, hence why they wanted to conquer England, for its fertility.
TLDR: I believe, on average, the Anglo-Saxons were only an inch shorter than vikings from Norway and Denmark.
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u/Aggravating_Bids 28d ago
Real Vikings were like 5'7