It’s true?
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It’s true?
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Posted by akijain2000
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Is what true?
I mean, they adopted corn rows from seeing them on North Africans so I wouldn’t put it past them. I think they’d find horns on helmets to be pretty rad.
Right now horns and everyone outs it in stuff and it’s annoying because it’s not accurate:(
Idk bro the vikings have been dead and buried for 1000 years
I can’t say if it is absolutely true, but I find it highly probable that a Norwegian tourist bought and wore a horned viking helmet at least once in the history of Epcot.
Fact check finding: PROBABLE
I, for one, am pretty embarrassed when Norwegian sports-fans use those stupid helmets with horns on them.
They may have worn them for ceremonies or something, but never in normal life or in battle.
I wrote an article about it one time, citing a bunch of sources on it. One guy in the comment section said I was wrong and an idiot, and everybody sided with the random internet naysayer instead of checking my sources. I learned a valuable lesson that day.
No, they didn’t have horns on their helmets. That depiction was introduced in theatre plays and operas to add to dramatic effect on how “barbaric” vikings were, completely ignoring facts that Vikings were among the most accomplished tradesmen around the era, trading as far as Constatinople today known as Istanbul.
Yes, there we raiding, pillaging and so forth ,but most of the time the vikings conducted trade. Smiting, handcrafted items, wood carvings, fish and so forth were among the trading good you could find with them or at their settlements along the south and western coastlines of Norway and parts of Sweden, danmark and even northern Irland/Scotland.
Some of us think those stupid helmets are funny and will wear them as a joke.
Vikings did use horns for various purposes, including as drinking vessels and for ceremonial or signaling use, though not typically in battle for combat helmets
https://www.hurstwic.org/history/articles/manufacturing/text/viking_helmets.htm
It was Richard Wagner that came up with the horns for his operas, or so the story goes. The few helmets that have been found from the period have no horns.
Most vikings would only have had a leather cap and leather armor shirt, at least the ones that would have been called out in the leidang. Kings would have had a hird that would be the king’s own picked men. They would have been a lot better equipped.
It’s true that Vikings didn’t wear horned helmets. In fact, most probably didn’t wear helmets at all, just leather hoods or caps. Helmets were reserved for kings and high-ranking warriors. However, in a tapestry found in the Oseberg burial, a figure wearing a horned helmet is depicted, which suggests that such headgear may have appeared in ritual contexts rather than in battle. [Take a look here, it’s a page from the Museum of the Viking Age that discusses Viking helmets specifically, including the horned one in the Oseberg tapestry ](https://www.vikingtidsmuseet.no/vikingtiden/junior/litt-om-arkeologi/litt-om-arkeologi2/hadde-vikingene-horn-pa-hjelmen.html)(unfortunately only in Norwegian, but that’s easy to translate by right clicking, right?)
At least it isn’t as egregious as that lie that Vikings did Mongolian throat singing stuff. Holy crap I hate how that has spread into the mainstream and just used to signify and perpetuate the myth of barbarism and savagery.
No horns, and I also dislike the horned ones you see everywhere and that you have to tell people avout it.
Commisioned an artist to make me a drawing of a viking once and had to refuse it as they wouldn’t do it without the “cool horns”.
It would be a very bad idea to basically wear “handles” when in close combat.