/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>8981169
>viking helmets were inspired by middle eastern designs

Which viking helmets and do you have a source for that? And which Middle-Eastern helms are we talking about?

The Gjermundbu spectacle helmet (c.980) was the latest extant example of a design that had been in use in Scandinavia since atleast the Vendel period (6th-8th). The majority of the helmets found in the Vendel/Valsgarde graves in Sweden were spectacle designs.

The Spectacle helm preceded the Viking Age by centuries yet remained in use until the end of the 10thC. The spectacle guards clearly worked well enough to be used for hundreds of years; and while it was replaced by simple nasal helms this was part of a general trend across Northern Europe moving away from helmets with facial protection (masks, spectacles, cheek flaps etc) and not any specific to spectacle helms.