Is Vikings Historically Accurate? What It Gets Right

In terms of costumes, everything about the show looks so well-crafted and so artfully wrought that it just seems a little too good to be true. Some of it is, and some of it isn’t. The costumes, Dr. Godlove says, "are so good that I can tell which manuscript illumination inspired the characters' outfits. In terms of 'look and feel' of these different people and their cultures in the early Middle Ages, this show gets it right."