Famous NOT wearing horned Viking helmets. We found some but very little and surely would be for ceremonial use. Also, if you think about it a little, so that want big horns and angry in the middle of a battle. I think that would hinder more than anything else. The real Viking helmets had this aspect, which is pretty scary. We tend to see Vikings dressed in skins and horned helmets, but in reality, as has been proven-they did not wear horns on their helmets, was an invention of the Swedish painter Gustav Malstrom in the pictures he made in 1820 for the epic Frithiof's Saga. The objective sought by the painter to put an unrealistic horns was to portray the ferocity of the warriors from Northern Europe almost demonic beings. But the passage of history as reflected in the manner to which we have used all the wrong way and that as part of the mythology. In fact a helmet with a horn is only for display or part of an elaborate costume, but I think they should banish some myths about the warriors of the North:
berserkers Here some of the real helmets Kriegers: that other is really a viking helmet, of which they made with animal skins, logic is a replica. the appearance of the helmet hid his face and gave an aura of ferocity.
this is a town that this Viking museum in Stockholm, dating from the ninth century. The Viking heyday was between the ages VIII to XI. precious reproduction, faithful to the original, a hull of a Viking King.
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