More than a century ago, archaeologists excavated a Viking ship buried in the ground at the Oseberg farm in Tønsberg, Norway. Inside the unusuall ...

As Roberta Frank explains in a 2000 scholarly article, “The Invention of the Viking Horned Helmet,” the costume ... in 1760 and passed off as genuine ancient poetry. In other cases, it was ...

We all recognize ancient Vikings from their distinctive ... Frank wrote in “The Invention of the Viking Horned Helmet” about how the image grew in popularity: Most eighteenth-century vikings ...

Pregnant women wielding swords and wearing martial helmets, foetuses set to avenge their fathers — and a harsh world where ...

Roberta Frank wrote the seminal paper on the subject, “The Invention of the Viking Horned Helmet” (you can find ... They put stereotypical ancient and medieval German headdresses — like ...

investigated what went under the helmet; the scientists extracted authentic DNA from ancient Viking skeletons, avoiding many of the problems of contamination faced by past researchers. Although ...

A rare "Corinthian" helmet from ancient Greece will go up for auction ... A 1,200-year-old gold Viking Age woman sporting a sword, shield and ponytail The object is "a rare and exceptionally ...

Photograph by Västergötlands museum Viking artifacts, such as these swords and helmet from sites in what is now Norway, help archaeologists trace their ancient expeditions. The Nature study ...

Well preserved remains of Viking ships, like those found at Oseberg ... although the horned helmet is a modern myth! Helmets required considerable skill to produce: an example of the tenth century ...