Feel free to add your own as you find them:
1. Horned Helmets. Apparently there is no evidence of vikings wearing horns on their helmets. Here is the only surviving viking helmet
2. Viking Armies were huge.
Viking armies were in the hundreds at most.
3. Vikings Fought and Pillaged 24-7.
Ill just quote the page i'm reading "Vikings peacefully colonised Iceland, Greenland and many smaller islands. As explorers they crossed the Atlantic and reached America 500 years before Columbus. As international merchants of their time, they also peacefully traded with almost every country of the then known world."
I never really thought of them as merchants.
my source on the above (not exactly an official source, but whatever)
http://www.vikingrune.com/2009/02/top-ten-myths-about-vikings/
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
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Yeah, I think the myth about vikings wearing horns came from monks who described them as evil, wicked monsters with horns. cool.
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