Forget what you saw on TV—Vikings didn’t wear horned helmets or burn their dead in ships. Here’s what history really says.

Have you ever compared your toes to your siblings or friends when you were little? And, be honest, how shocked were you to ...

This tapestry also contains one of the only known depictions of a horned Viking helmet. Comments ( 0 ) ( ) When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

May 16, 2025 at 0:53pm BST. A 50-year-old man has admitted stealing Viking helmets in a raid on the Ulster Museum. Adil Hajjaj also accepted taking a vintage doctor’s bag and optician’s set ...

For example, the woman who got a tattoo for the Vikings' Week 2 matchup vs. the Atlanta Falcons, the tattoo was of a falcon with a Viking helmet on it.

Pregnant women wore martial helmets in Viking society, a new study reveals (AFP via Getty Images)An episode in one of the sagas we looked at supports the idea that unborn children ...

Rare gold-plated pre-Viking helmet fragment discovered in Scandinavia Archaeology director says the piece comes "from what must have been one of Scandinavia's most magnificent helmets." ...

It is an all-white, iced out look that includes a helmet with a metallic gray stripe. The franchise says that the metallic gray stripe, "emulates the metal strips on early Viking battle helmets." ...

But the horned helmet is a myth and there’s little evidence that Vikings actually had tattoos. However, we do know that they practiced body modification. How Vikings modified their bodies ...