Sven Skildbiter's article on the details of the only mail shirt found in a Viking Age Scandinavian context. O'Conner which is in Dominic Tweddle's 'The Anglian Helmet from Coppergate'.ДЄrticle on chain mail, including sizes of wire, rings, patterns and descriptions. Table compiled using notes from article 'Catalogue of Scandinavian Mail' by Sonia A. How Common was Chain Mail: Extant Scandinavian Mail.Peter Beatson's The 'Viking Shield' from ArchaeologyД®xcellent review of the archaeological shield examples, shield construction, shield ornamentation and more.Note that the Viking Age is dated from ca. Similarly, the Sutton Hoo helmet, found in England but of probable Swedish manufacture, is decorated with ornamental plates depicting almost identical figures (c. A helmet-plate die from Oland, Sweden, shows a dancing figure wearing a helm with cheek-pieces and which is crowned with two horn-like bird's heads which arc over the top of the head so that the birds appear to be staring at one another (c. There are also a couple of art sources that seem to depict 'horned' helmets. This helmet has a jutting bird-beak between two round, staring eyes on the forehead, and is crowned with two S-shaped 'horns' that curve up and back above the head which are bronze, not horn, and which do not resemble cow horns in any way, shape or form.ДЄnother is a small bronze figurine of a man wearing a helmet identical to the one found at Vikso. 800-400 B.C.E.) which was found at Vikso, Denmark. One example is a bronze helmet of probable Celtic origin (c. VIKINGS DID NOT EVER WEAR HORNED HELMS!!!!! The only examples of Scandinavian helmets with horns come from the late Bronze Age, very much before the Viking era. Vikings DID NOT wear helms with either horns or wings. The Viking helmet, has been a source of much misinformation since the Nationalist movements in the 1800's, when romantic painters pictured burly Vikings adorned with helmets graced with cow horns sprouting from either temple like some sort of upright aurochs! 7-December-2004.ДЄ nice summary article discussing how the misunderstanding arose about horns or wings on Viking helmets. 'Did Vikings really wear horns on their helmets?' The Straight Dope.HalvgrГmr's Viking and Pre-Viking Helms ArticlesД®xamines the archaeological evidence for Viking helms and the earlier helms from which they developed.While I am in the process of updating my knowledge about the current state of archaeology in Viking armor and weaponry, other researchers have published some nice materials to the web that cover many aspects of Viking martial equipment, and therefore in the interim period until I have updated my old article, I will provide links to the best web resources I have encountered, and also provide some annotated bibliography as well below. The article was a good beginner's overview, but it had some inaccuracies and was based on 'survey' books about the Vikings. The original version of this page was one of the very first I constructed, in about 1988. Viking Arms and Armor Dear Viking Answer Lady: I know Vikings didn't have horns on their helmets, but what types of armor did they wear, and what types of weapons did they use? (signed) Lost In A Haze Of Ignorance Gentle Readers:

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