The horned helmet is the one most widely depicted in Viking folklore. The fearsome animal nature of the mighty Viking warrior was depicted by the wearing of horns attached to his helmet and just the silhouette of this helmet against a darkening sky would strike terror in the heart of an enemy. Although our horned fantasy helmet is called Viking, there is little evidence that Vikings wore horned helmets. No depiction of Viking Age warriors' helmets and no actually preserved helmet has horns. The idea of horned Viking helmets is a latter-day myth created by national romantic ideas in Sweden at the end of the 19th century, blending the Viking Age with glimpses of the Nordic Bronze Age some 2000 years earlier for which actual horned helmets, probably for ceremonial purposes, are attested in both in petroglyphs and the actual finds. Viking Weapons and Warriors