Know Your Trivia for Week of 3/30/26

It’s time to brush up on our Know Your Trivia category for this week! One question will be posed during tonight's Trivia Game!

Did you know Vikings didn't actually wear horned helmets? Despite how they're shown in movies and costumes, real Vikings never wore horns on their helmets. That image was popularized centuries later by opera costumes and artwork - not history.  Instead, authentic Viking helmets, such as the Gjermundbu helmet discovered in Norway in 1943, were practical, rounded iron caps with no horns.

To find a horned helmet, you have to travel way back, before the Viking Age to the European Bronze Age, around the 9th–8th century BCE. That’s where the stunning Viksø (or Veksø) helmets appear. Crafted from bronze, beautifully decorated, and indeed sporting large horns, they belonged to a culture that lived thousands of years before the Vikings ever raided their first shore. They were also ceremonial and not military or used in fighting.