Didn’t know they played American football there so far back.
No horns?? its a fake
A terrific find. Various iron hoops of dubious origin and function have been touted as Saxon, Viking, or Norman helmets, depending on the current fashion. This is clearly a helmet and was no parade adornement. It was a steel pot. A sword could easily cleave a skull, but with a proper helmet, a very bad headache might be the result. Real warriors needed a good sword and a helmet. A shield was more easily obtained made of wood and leather.
Dont tell the Swedes, they’ll want to destroy it as part of their program of cultural self-destruction.
https://thornews.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/only-existing-viking-age-helmet-norway.jpg
The Scandinavian one is a lot nicer. Wonder why? Is this one older?
Dang, I was wondering where I left that one! I only took it off a minute........
This Yarm helmet shares the same general shape of the Anglo-Saxon Sutton Hoo helmet, circa 625, absent the full face guard of the very decorative and functional Sutton Hoo.
“We want to hire the man who GAVE him those wounds”
1960
Ping!
Hagar the Horrible?
Ever notice that in the movie GLADIATOR that some of the gladiator’s helmets are viking helms made 800 years later?
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Thanks, ameribbean expat! I'd often wondered how the mail curtain was affixed to medieval helmets...
I agree that the out-turned edge probably was an "aftermarket fix". If done as part of the original design, I'd expect the flare to be more obtuse -- to deflect a sword blade away, rather than catching it. (And, I'd expect the mail to be fastened on the inside, for the same reason...)
The first smith to contrive that "crossed bands & hoop" foundation was a real genius!
It's great to see early technology like this preserved for us to appreciate!
TXnMA
Wait a minute.
Unearthed in the FIFTIES?
So this is not a recent discovery. What happened? No one examined it all that time?
