So little surprise that one of the most popular and enduring uses of the horned helmet is the classic 1957 Warner Bros. cartoon "What's Opera, Doc?," in which the ever-transgressive Bugs Bunny ...

A “viking age” is first mentioned in 1873, in two independent Danish and Swedish articles; the period gets its first monumental write-up in Johannes Steenstrup’s four-volume Norman-nerne ...

Contrary to cartoon depictions, Viking helmets probably didn't have horns or wings. In fact, a rare complete helmet, from a 10th-century chieftain's grave in Gjermundbu, ...

Although the fragmentary metal Viking helmets that have been discovered do not have horns, the portrayal of a warrior — possibly a berserker — wearing a horned helmet on the Oseberg textile ...

Unfortunately, few Viking helmets survive intact. The small sample size cannot prove the point definitively, but they are all horn-free. Why, then, do cartoon Vikings, ...

Millennia-Old Headgear Is One of Just Two (Almost) Intact Viking Helmets A new study dates a piece of armor found in Britain in the 1950s to the tenth century A.D. Alex Fox - Correspondent.