THE cover of the February 2nd edition 2013 of The Economist featured a Viking wearing a horned helmet, to accompany our special report on the merits of the Nordic model. Our cover designer knew ...

Led by Dr Chris Caple, the project also found it is only the second near-complete Viking helmet found ... attached to the skull of a helmet that extends to cover the throat, neck and shoulders.

As Roberta Frank explains in a 2000 scholarly article, “The Invention of the Viking Horned Helmet,” the costume device gained currency after the 1876 premiere of Wagner’s “The Ring of the ...

The two pieces fit together like a puzzle, ROMU said, and together they made the brow ridge of a pre-Viking era helmet ...

indicating that a mail curtain may have been attached to cover the neck. Damage to the helmet suggests it was hit by a plow or a spade. For more on Viking weaponry, go to "Weapons of the Ancient ...

A Viking helmet unearthed in Yarm in the 1950s is the first to ever be found in Britain, according to new research. Found in Chapel Yard by workmen digging trenches for new sewerage pipes ...