Did Vikings ever wear horned helmets? Not really, but here's why people think they did
How a famous opera proliferated one of the most enduring myths in popular culture.
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How a famous opera proliferated one of the most enduring myths in popular culture.
The helmets’ similarities to art from southern Europe shows how goods and ideas traveled during the Nordic Bronze Age
Two spectacular bronze helmets decorated with bull-like, curved horns may have inspired the idea that more than 1,500 years later, Vikings wore bulls' horns on their helmets, although there is no evidence they ever did. Rather, the two helmets...