Whenever people think of vikings they always think of them wearing the helmets with the big horns. However that is a myth. There is no evidence proving that vikings wore horns on their helmets. There is still some possibility that that is true but there is evidence about the helmets the vikings actually did wear. Their helmets were fairly simple, they just looked like a bowl with a nose guard. These helmets were made from pieces of iron that were put together. These were called spangenhelm. The nose guard was to prevent the nose from being broken. So when people associate vikings with helmets with horns they are wrong.
source:
"Hurstwic: Viking Helmets." Hurstwic, a Viking Age Living History Society. Web. 15 Mar. 2010. http://www.hurstwic.org/history/articles/manufacturing/text/viking_helmets.htm
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