FASCINATION ABOUT VIKING RELICS

A clue—indeed, for a very long time, the one clue—arrived in 1943 with the invention of the damaged spangenhelm helmet in Ringerike, Norway. Discovered in nine fragments among a cache of weaponry along with other burial artefacts, the piece – named Gjermundbhu, following the farm where by it had been observed – was painstakingly restored, s