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https://archaeology.org/issues/november-december-2013/collection/pazyryk-mummies-altay-mountains-siberia/Ibn Fadhlan, a diplomat sent by the Caliph Al-Muqtadir to the King of the Bulgars on the Volga River in 921, met a party of people called the Rus, who seem to have been East Norse traders (although probably with some influence from other tribes and peoples). And he wrote:
I saw the Rusiyyah when they had arrived on their trading expedition and had disembarked at the River Atil. I have never seen more perfect physiques than theirs—they are like palm trees, are fair and reddish, and do not wear the qurtaq or the caftan. The man wears a cloak with which he covers one half of his body, leaving one of his arms uncovered. Every one of them carries an axe, a sword and a dagger and is never without all of that which we have mentioned. Their swords are of the Frankish variety, with broad, ridged blades. Each man, from the tip of his toes to his neck, is covered in dark-green lines, pictures and such like.
(Source:
https://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast/montgo1.pdf —the whole account of the Rus is translated here and is well worth reading.)
That's pretty much the only direct textual evidence for tattoos in the Viking Age. It's possible that they'd picked it up from the Scythians to the east; in some Scythian burials, the body is actually frozen and does show elaborate tattoos. (Check 'em out: Siberian princess reveals her 2,500 year old tattoos ) I don't know of any Viking-age burials of Scandinavians that preserve any skin, so we may never be absolutely sure—but Ibn Fadhlan's account is considered to be pretty reputable. So probably at least some Vikings, at some times and places, did have tattoos.
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