Surprising Facts About the Vikings and How They Really Lived

Vikings never wore horned helmets

We have always pictured our Vikings wearing a helmet with horns. Horned helmets seem to be the standard look for them. But the truth is, there has never been any evidence so far that the Vikings did wear this kind of helmet.

Source: Herald Weekly

What Vikings did wear to protect their skulls are skullcaps. What probably associated horned helmets with Vikings was Richard Wagner’s cycle of four operas where the cast wore horned helmets.