The two helmets that were thought to connect Vikings to this style of headgear were discovered in a bog in 1942 by a worker cutting peat for fuel in Denmark. Until recently , researchers could not ...

Two horned helmets widely attributed to the Vikings have just been dated to 900 B.C. — some 2,000 years before the Vikings ever existed. The bronze helmets were discovered in Denmark in 1942 and ...

The elaborately-horned Viksø helmets have been associated with medieval Vikings. But a new study fixes their date to about 900 B.C. – over a thousand years before any Vikings.

The thing is, horned helmets did exist in northern Europe—but they predated the Vikings by at least 2,000 years. They’re products of a Bronze Age culture that predates written records in the ...

We’ve been lied to. As the above video shows, popular imagery of Vikings is filled with lots of horned helmets. It’s everywhere from football mascots (like the Minnesota Vikings) to far too ...

Painters began to show Vikings with horned helmets, evidently inspired by Wagner's costume designer, Professor Carl Emil Doepler, who created horned helmets for use in the first Bayreuth ...

The Cincinnati Reds keep on winning, and fans are seeing more and more of the team's celebratory Viking helmet. The Reds' tradition is new this season. Players are draped in a special cape and ...