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Viking horned helms, yep I went there.
Sir Vander Linde:
I would not say that their armor skills were not advanced. Their helms were quite decorated, along with fittings on swords, etc.
Examples of helms:
Sir Vander Linde:
Also found this, from the bronze age Scandinavia/Russia. This example specifically is from Denmark.
Sir Vander Linde:
Thanks for all the info and opinions on this subject!!!
Also the above picture of bronze age helms, we see toppers like this on the royal Danish helm when heraldry is "used" or better said recorded.
Sir William:
Well...if I didn't know any better, I'd say those look like horns on those helms there. :)
Ian:
There are lots of fancy helmet adornments from the bronze age, but even those are suspected to be ceremonial in use, and of course the bronze age pre-dates the Vikings by about 2000 years :)
Artists also began depicting the Germanic Barbarian tribes wearing horns long before artists began putting horns on Viking helmets in artwork. Then it just kind of carried over in to paintings, but these were all depictions from at the earliest, the 17th century.
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