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The name of this helmet "battle swine" recalls the boar helmets mentioned in Beowulf, in the lines 303, 1112, and 1328. [26] Hoard of the Nibelungs Old Norse: hodd or arfi Niflunga, Middle High German: hort der Nibelunge: The treasure acquired by Siegfried/Sigurd, taken by the Burgundians, desired by Attila/Kriemhild, and finally sunk in the Rhine.
The Vendel I helmet, dated to approximately 650 CE has plates showing a rider accompanied by a bird of prey with a boar-crested helmet. Similarly, the Valsgärde 7 helmet has a plate depicting two warriors carrying spears and wearing boar-crested helmets, a motif that bears a strong resemblance to one of the 6th century Torslunda plates.
Hypixel Network, [3] simply known as Hypixel, is a Minecraft server that hosts minigames. It was released on April 13, 2013 by Simon "hypixel" (name of player is not written like the name of the server, but with a lower h (see list of admins)) Collins-Laflamme and Philippe Touchette, and is managed and run by Hypixel Inc. [4] Hypixel is only available on the Java Edition of Minecraft, [5] but ...
The Torslunda plates are four cast bronze dies found in the Torslunda parish on the Swedish island Öland. [2] They display figures in relief, [3] representing what are presumed to be traditional scenes from Germanic mythology. [4]
Two other boar-crested helmets are known—from Benty Grange and from Wollaston [7] [24] —and the Guilden Morden boar is a close parallel of the boar fixed to the former. [4] The Benty Grange boar has a similar shape; it has a long and distinctive elongated snout projecting forward, a similar stance, and front and hind legs each joined as one.
Left image: Warriors with boar crested helmets on one of the Torslunda plates. Right image: Warrior with boar crested helmet on the Gundestrup cauldron . In Norse poetry, the word jǫfurr , which originally meant "wild boar", is used metaphorically for "a prince, monarch or warrior", which probably stems from the custom of wearing boar's heads ...
The boar atop the crest was likewise associated with protection and suggests a time when boar-crested helmets may have been common, as do the helmet from Wollaston and the Guilden Morden boar. The contemporary epic Beowulf mentions such helmets five times and speaks of the strength of men "when the hefted sword, its hammered edge and gleaming ...
A description of a boar's tusk helmet appears in book ten of Homer's Iliad, as Odysseus is armed for a night raid to be conducted against the Trojans. Meriones gave Odysseus a bow, a quiver and a sword, and put a cleverly made leather helmet on his head. On the inside there was a strong lining on interwoven straps, onto which a felt cap had ...