In a town outside Copenhagen, Denmark, metal detectorists discovered an artifact that pre-dates the Vikings. Marco Chilese via Unsplash Just before the age of the Vikings, a town on an eastern ...
Why did the Vikings go to war? Fighting was very important for the ... Some chieftains had iron helmets and wore chain mail coats. Poorer Vikings might have a leather helmet and padded leather ...
Alongside it were a vast array of weaponry and a 27-metre-long ship. Although the helmet belonged to a powerful war-leader we cannot be certain who was buried at Sutton Hoo.