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Ahmad ibn Fadlan about Scandinavians

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>They are the filthiest of all Allah’s creatures: they do not purify themselves after excreting or urinating or wash themselves when in a state of ritual impurity after coitus and do not even wash their hands after food.
>Every day without fail they wash their faces and their heads with the dirtiest and filthiest water there could be. A young serving girl comes ever morning with breakfast and with it a great basin of water. She proffers it to her master, who washes his hands and face in it, as well as his hair. [...] then he blows his nose and spits and does every filthy thing imaginable in the water. When he has finished, the servant carries the bowl to the man next to him. She goes on passing the basin round from one to another until she has taken it to all the men in the house in turn. And each of them blows his nose and spits and washes his face and hair in this basin.