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ArchaeologyYou are in: North Yorkshire > History > Archaeology > Did Vikings invent teddy bears?  Did Vikings invent teddy bears?By Nicola Lawrence Vikings are more often associated with terrifying and pillaging than cute teddy bears, but research by archaeologists in York suggests that they may have more in common than you'd think... The theory of the teddy bear originating with Teddy Roosevelt in 1902 is now being challenged by archaeologists in York. The group, from the JORVIK Viking Centre, has unearthed proof that the influences behind the cuddly bears were actually introduced a long time ago by blood thirsty Vikings! When we think about Vikings, the usual images that immediately spring to mind are grizzly men with names like Blood-axe and Skull-Splitter, marauding around England 1,000 years ago terrorizing the local populace, so somehow the image of a Viking going to sleep tightly cuddling his teddy doesn't instill much fear in us.
But archaeologists have discovered that Viking berserkers were real life teddy bears. They would dress up as bears to put the fear of god into their opponents and believed they took the spirit of bear into battle with them. Vikings also used to keep bear claws as necklaces or simple keepsakes 鈥 with some found during the Coppergate excavation in York (1976-1981). The berserker was thought not only to have assumed the ferocity of an animal, but also to have acquired the strength of a bear. The berserker would have assumed a 鈥渂ear name鈥 and replicated the shape of the bear in combat, hence becoming the first big cuddly bears we now know as teddy bears! last updated: 31/03/2008 at 15:58 You are in: North Yorkshire > History > Archaeology > Did Vikings invent teddy bears? |
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