From undercuts to braids, representations of Iron Age Nordic peoples have often emphasised hairstyles as being expressive of some kind of inherent wild-ness or authentic anti-civilisation about the 'Vikings'. With the Suebian man we have a preserved hair style from that era, and Dr Rasmussen discusses this find, and the possible symbolism literally entwined in the hair.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suebian_knot
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