We all recognize ancient Vikings from their distinctive helmets featuring horns – or at least that ... International Scandinavian and Medieval Studies in Memory of Gerd Wolfgang Weber, 2000 ...

And scattered through this marginalia is an oddly recurring scene: a brave knight in shining armor facing down a snail. It’s a great unsolved mystery of medieval manuscripts. As Got Medieval ...

Here’s how it works. Two spectacular bronze helmets decorated with bull-like, curved horns may have inspired the idea that more than 1,500 years later, Vikings wore bulls' horns on their helmets ...

Historically people have died, and it is always the lance tip going through the eye slot [of the helmet ... of his life - according to a medieval knight's chivalric code of conduct.