Karen had better run from the viking kittens
Posted on 09/14/2024 2:48:00 PM PDT by algore
Karen had better run from the viking kittens
‘There’s never been a Viking helmet found with horns,’
No horns? I’m pretty sure there’s never been a 15 foot Viking either.
The helmet makes it instantly recognizable as a Viking, without them people would be puzzled about what the statue was supposed to be, for better or worse, the horns are iconic and not that major of an historical point, it seems pretty trivial for something that is already a fixture.
I’d think the town of Gimli would put up a statue of a dwarf.
this suggests that there were horned helmets in the area at one time, but just because we have not found a recent one really does not prove anything.
I would suspect that such helmets were reserved for the highest rank as depicted here
I suspect the problem is that she hasn’t had the horn in a long long time.
oops, missed other link
And in Price Valiant comic strips! Even Winged Helmets!
Where would Wagnerian opera (up to the 1950s anyway) be without horns and wings on the helmets?
I had a 1966 saab 96 that had custom viking wings :)
...Depictions of an Iron Age date exist featuring people with horned helmets/heads, such as upon the Golden Horns. Similar images are also known from the Viking period itself.
In the Oseberg burial from Norway, which dates to the early Viking period, a tapestry was found on which horned helmets are also depicted. Does this prove that all Vikings wore the famous helmets with horns? The answer is probably not...
They ought consider replacing this statue with one of their Scandinavian descendants of today. You know, one without any round or roundish body or mass.
The complainers probably consider the horns too macho or too Jan.6th-y or something.
The thing is, the statue is old enough that the horns are now part of the history of the statue itself. To correct them would be like correcting the lean in the tower of Pisa.
File under “First World Problems.”
LOL — those animators were so good. Elmer Fudd with that massive helmet and his scrawny neck
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