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This helmet was made of iron from four plates after the spangenhelm pattern. This helmet has a rounded cap, and there is evidence that it also may have had a mail aventail. It has a "spectacle" guard around the eyes and nose which formed a sort of mask, which suggests a close affinity with the earlier Vendel Period helmets.
Attic helmet: ancient Greeks Boar's tusk helmet: 17th century BCE: Mycenaean Greeks until the 10th century BCE Boeotian helmet: ancient Greek cavalry Chalcidian helmet: ancient Greeks Coolus helmet: ancient Romans Corinthian helmet [1] ancient Greeks Disc and stud helmet: c. 400 BCE: ancient Illyrians & Adriatic Veneti until 167 BCE Galea ...
Vendel I helmet, dating to c.650 CE [47] In Old Norse sources, helmets may be associated with boars, in particular those of the Yngling royal house. The Swedish king Aðils owned the helmets Hildisvín ('Battle-swine') [48] and Hildigǫltr ('Battle-boar'), [49] the former of which was inherited from another Yngling, his parental uncle Áli. [50]
The helmet was made through the use of slivers of boar tusks which were attached to a leather base, padded with felt, in rows. A description of a boar's tusk helmet appears in book ten of Homer 's Iliad , as Odysseus is armed for a night raid to be conducted against the Trojans .
The Sutton Hoo helmet is a decorated Anglo-Saxon helmet found during a 1939 excavation of the Sutton Hoo ship-burial.It was buried around the years c. 620–625 AD and is widely associated with an Anglo-Saxon leader, King Rædwald of East Anglia; its elaborate decoration may have given it a secondary function akin to a crown.
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is a 2011 action role-playing game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks.It is the fifth main installment in The Elder Scrolls series, following The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (2006), and was released worldwide for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360 on November 11, 2011.
This marks the first time an ancient Roman helmet was found in Denmark. According to the press release, the two plates "consist of a neck guard and a decorated cheek guard from a so-called crest ...
A Greek hoplite with muscle cuirass, spear, shield, Corinthian helmet and sheathed sword. Ancient Greek weapons and armor were primarily geared towards combat between individuals. Their primary technique was called the phalanx, a formation consisting of massed shield wall, which required heavy frontal armor and medium-ranged weapons such as ...