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 when ...
It’s strange how one of the world’s most recognizable historical images is also one of the least accurate. Everyone can picture it instantly: a towering Viking warrior striding across a windswept ...
Misconceptions abound about Vikings. They are often depicted as bloodthirsty, unwashed warriors with winged helmets. But that's a poor picture based largely on Viking portrayals in the 19th century, ...
Popular culture has shown us Vikings walking around wearing helmets with horns on them. The story of these Viking helmets may have come from the composer Richard Wagner, according to Aarhus University ...
In 1961, when quarterback Fran Tarkenton took the field for the Minnesota Vikings' first season, his helmet emblazoned with fierce horns, he passed for four touchdowns in an upset victory over the ...
"Did Viking Helmets Have Horns?" "Did Columbus Discover America?" Dan chats to British author and public historian Greg Jenner about some of the questions you should NEVER ask a historian, as well as ...
LONDON (Reuters) - The Viking exhibition opening on Thursday at the British Museum has axes, swords, helmets, dragon figureheads and, as its centrepiece, a 37-metre-long (121-feet) Viking warship that ...
and asked, “Did Vikings REALLY wear helmets with horns jutting from them? If so, why? Cows aren’t that threatening.” It’s a great question, and one we were ready to investigate. It turns out we didn’t ...
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