>>11618105The entire depiction of them in pop media is ridicules.
Their appearance is a good starting point. They are described as being ghost like, hollowed out, starving figures (as would be expected coming from a frozen wasteland and being at sea for so long - prior to much storage technology or covered over ships)
The various settlements of the British Isles, Ireland and France where comparatively well fed cattle farmers, with high fat diets ect.
Their reputation as being feared came from sneek attacks on civilian settlements. They would just raid (often creep by cover of night) into a village, steal all the valuables (artwork, jewels, farm animals, woman, children) then murder the men, set the town on fire and go back to the sea
In actual battles they got pretty thoroughly wiped out