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Does anyone know of any reliable resources which feature hairstyles of celtic/ teutonic men in the first century a.d.?
I'm getting veeery bored with my current three hairstyles, lol
The Viking Answer Lady website has some, but they're not quite the time period you asked for.
http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/hairstyl.htm
Sadly, the Celts left us little in the way of writing,and what they did was coopted by the Church when it arrived in the 5th century or so. I did some googling around last night, and what I did notice that caught my eye was the fairly frequent assertion that among Celtic and Germanic tribes, long hair and facial hair was the norm and that short hair was only worn by slaves and men who were being punished for something.
So, having one's hair cut was an experience of shame. I do, as I have tried to suggest here before, subscribe to the notion that ancestral memory may travel through the energy of our DNA, particularly through the matrilineal line, and any of us who have had hair cutting as a shameful experience may very well be accessing some ancestral memory.
That Celtic and Germanic peoples have an ancient history of longhair that was then made wrong by the church (the googling produced some evidence of that as well) fits in this remembered experience, too. It helps me make sense of why many of us have this non-rational desire to have longhair. Perhaps it is our body's way of reclaiming something that belongs to our ancestry.
Robert
Get to a library and research "FASHIONS IN HAIR the first five thousand years" by Richard Corson, a 700-page book. If you have difficulty finding it, I have my own copy and can photocopy the relevant illustrations to "snail-mail" to you iif you email me your postal address. Good luck!
