All that you've heard about the Vikings may not be true.

More than a century ago, archaeologists excavated a Viking ship buried in the ground at the Oseberg farm in Tønsberg, Norway.

Spectacular helmets worn by Bronze Age leaders as power symbols. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Two spectacular bronze ...

Frank wrote in “The Invention of the Viking Horned Helmet” about how the image grew in popularity: Most eighteenth-century vikings wore winged helmets, the cap of choice for wild, romantic ...

The helmet, discovered at a Norwegian farm in the 1940s, is one of the few complete Viking helmets ever discovered. Crucially, none of them have horns. The idea that Viking helmets ever even had ...

Viking society only developed in the 9th century C.E., and there is no sign that Vikings really wore horned helmets. According to History.com, the legend likely originated with Scandinavian ...

Concealed in iron helmets, chain mail, and leather cuirasses (leather torso armor), Viking re-enactors attend the Festival of Slavs and Vikings in Wolin, Poland. Much of our knowledge of Viking ...

Pregnant women wielding swords and wearing martial helmets, foetuses set to avenge ... kings and battles – such as the highly romanticised Viking age (the period from AD800 until AD1050).