5 ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS FOR VIKINGS ARTIFACTS

A clue—certainly, for a very long time, the only real clue—arrived in 1943 with the invention of the broken spangenhelm helmet in Ringerike, Norway. Found in nine fragments amongst a cache of weaponry along with other burial artefacts, the piece – named Gjermundbhu, after the farm the place it had been uncovered – was painstakingly restored