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Thought the whole 'Viking helmets had horns' thing was just a tired joke but turns out it was 19th century costume designers who made it up
I was arguing with a buddy about it and looked it up and every single Viking helmet found by archaeologists has no horns, the myth came from a Wagner opera costume in the 1870s, has anyone else been dead wrong about a common historical story like this?
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dylan_brown301mo agoMost Upvoted
Ha, yeah I thought Columbus proved the earth was round until my history teacher set me straight!
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kimfisher1mo ago
Read in an old Nat Geo that ancient Greeks figured it out first.
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