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Again difference between "cleaning" and "bathing" and the difference in the combing is that the norseMEN were combing their hair. Combing is absolutely unnecessary when you have short hair and no beard, which was the style for most central European peasants, but not the style of the norsemen. So yes, peasant women did absolutely conb their long hair, peasant men not so much. Which was the perfect source for idiotic bias that chroniclers needed to condemn the invading norsemen.