The Vikings wore horned helmets in battle
There is no evidence that Vikings used horned helmets in battle, although it is possible that horned head-dresses were used in ritual contexts. The horned and winged helmets associated with the Vikings in popular mythology were the inventions of 19th-century Romanticism. In 1876 Carl Emil Doepler created horned helmets for the first Bayreuth Festival production of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen and has been credited with inspiring this.
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Fred Mayes
Hagar the Horrible wore one
Unique1
Somewhere...wearing horned helmets. :D
lady draggon
Not much info in the answer
belindawilliams
Patty Urban, 🤣🤣 Me too!
JRW
Karin Johansson, Hagar is not real! Next you'll be telling us there is no Santa!
dmarkc
Those helmets would have been too hindering
earlepg
timmer d, False horns.
Karin Johansson
( EIGHT**BALL), most vikings didn't fight with anyone.
Karin Johansson
Joseph Moran, No Vikings didn't had such helmets.
Karin Johansson
lucky57, in bronze age they had helmets with bigger horns. But only ceremonial
Karin Johansson
Ilias Tsiabardas, someone mixed vikings with earlier groups.
Karin Johansson
Fred Mayes, No real viking had one
Karin Johansson
Patty Urban, they actually didn't. I have worked as an archaelogist..
Karin Johansson
timmer d, false vikings
Karin Johansson
Unique1, never
David McKay
Otherwise, they wouldn’t have asked the question, as we say in Trivial Pursuit games
timmer d
Minnesota Vikings wear horned helmets