Where are the horns?

This question is pretty much unavoidable whenever people look at me. They want to know where the horns have gone.

The horns never were.

That's right. Vikings with horns are a falsehood from that uekte Wagner (more on him later) and the 19th-century Romantickism.

Vikings don't really need horns. First of all, I think they'd've been a pain to attach to the metal helmet; second of all I think they'd be a bit of a liability for when one slashes down with a sword or a two-handed axe. Also, we're fearsome enough as it is.

We can scare the habit off a monk without horns, heya! We sing our Vikings rowing songs, yell our battle-cries, and charge, heya! There is no need for horns when a Viking is making his move, his eyes shining with the lust for battle and for geld. No need for horns when a berserker is making his fierce foray into the field!

Also, we have dragon-prowed ships, which people see and can strike fear. And the glint of steel swords and spear-points.

It wasn't horned helmets that made people pray to God to save them from the fury of the Northmen.

It was pure, unmixed Northman fury.

HEYA!!