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Many probably didn't wear helmets at all. Artwork from that era shows roughly half of Vikings in battle bareheaded, while the rest wear unremarkable dome-shaped or conical helmets. Low class or poor vikings wore leather helmets that didn't last. A few metal ones have been included iron "spectacle" helmets, so called because they have bronze eye-and-nose guards that look a bit like a pair of glasses. In general a viking owned only a pound or two of iron fo r his weapons and armor, so equipment was a t a minimum.

One thing that they did not wear was a helmet with eagle wings or cows horns. That affectation is reserved for Opera vikings and cheesy movies made on a tight budget.

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