2006-10-18 03:11:26 · 10 answers · asked by KELLY N 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Primary & Secondary Education
Yes - 2 small ones either side towards the top of the helmet.
2006-10-18 03:13:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, or at least most genuine Viking artifacts do not show this - it seems to stem from Victorian illustrations with no basis in history. If you think about it, they would be very impractical in battle, as a good blow with a sword or axe catching one of the horns could dislodge the helmet, or wrench the wearers neck! Horned helmets may have very occasionally worn for show or ritual when not in battle, but they certainly were not standard viking dress.
2006-10-18 10:25:09 · answer #2 · answered by Avondrow 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no. and I have no idea where that came fromhttp://images.google.ro/imgres?imgurl=http://www.kultofathena.com/images%255C200494_l.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.kultofathena.com/product~item~200494~name~Leather%2BViking%2BHelmet.htm&h=648&w=480&sz=33&hl=ro&start=11&tbnid=Wsz0rjT9bkv31M:&tbnh=137&tbnw=101&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dviking%2Bhelmet%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Dro%26lr%3D%26sa%3DGApart from two or three representations of (ritual) helmets with protrusions that may be either stylized ravens, snakes or horns, no depiction of Viking Age warriors' helmets, and no actually preserved helmet has horns. In fact, the formal close-quarters style of Viking combat (either in shield walls or aboard "ship islands") would have made horned helmets cumbersome and hazardous to the warrior's own side. Therefore it can be ruled out that Viking warriors had horned helmets, but whether or not they were used in Scandinavian culture for other, ritual purposes remains unproven. The general misconception that Viking warriors wore horned helmets was partly promulgated by the 19th century enthusiasts of the Götiska Förbundet, founded in 1811 in Stockholm, with the aim of promoting the suitability of Norse mythology as subjects of high art and other ethnological and moral aims. The Vikings were also often depicted with winged-helmets and in other clothing taken from Classical antiquity, especially in depictions of Norse gods. This was done in order to legitimize the Vikings and their mythology, by associating it with the Classical world which has always been idealized in European culture. The latter-day mythos created by national romantic ideas blended the Viking Age with glimpses of the Nordic Bronze Age some 2,000 years earlier, for which actual horned helmets, probably for ceremonial purposes, are attested both in petroglyphs and by actual finds (See Bohuslän [4]). The cliché was perpetuated by cartoons like Hägar the Horrible and Vicky the Viking.
2006-10-18 10:20:37 · answer #3 · answered by oana 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not many true Vikings around these days!
But yes they did have horns on their helmets.
2006-10-18 16:20:44 · answer #4 · answered by Bob 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
vikings have always been pictured with horns on thier helmets.
2006-10-18 10:18:50 · answer #5 · answered by gypsy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in popular fiction they would, but most historical vikings wore simple rounded helmets and any others that they would have plundered
2006-10-18 10:13:52 · answer #6 · answered by Mr Gravy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no horns, they are a recent invention. they wouldn't have been very practical in a battle situation.
2006-10-18 10:43:36 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only in Holywood!
2006-10-18 14:02:47 · answer #8 · answered by Safety First 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not in this day and age, thats so dark ages lol!
2006-10-18 10:13:35 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
they did , not sure why though
2006-10-18 10:13:50 · answer #10 · answered by bigbird_gem 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋