>>Of course Heortlings wear horned helmets. They're vikings!
>
> I'm pretty sure nobody wore horned helmets in battle. But it was such
> a great image that in King of Dragon Pass, we had to do it any way
> for Uroxi.
Nobody *sane* wears horns on their helmet - which just goes to show you about the Uroxi!
(no "fighting" helmets have been found with horns on, though there have been ceremonial helmets found - an overview at: http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mhornedhelmet.html). Note that I count those wacky Tournament helmets with all sorts of crests worn during the later Middle Ages as "ceremonial" - you wouldn't have found those in the middle of a for-real battle, or even the melee at the tournament.
RR
He was born with the gift of laughter and the sense that the world was mad
R. Sabatini, Scaramouche
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