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Boar imagery on Anglo-Saxon helmets is associated explicitly with protection in Beowulf where the poet describes the figures on helmets kept watch over the warriors wearing them. [58] It has been proposed that the figures have an apotropaic role and that cutting them off will result in the death of the warrior.
The Sutton Hoo helmet is a decorated Anglo-Saxon helmet found during a 1939 excavation of the Sutton Hoo ship-burial.It was buried around the years c. 620–625 AD and is widely associated with an Anglo-Saxon leader, King Rædwald of East Anglia; its elaborate decoration may have given it a secondary function akin to a crown.
Bjarkarímur tells that Bjarki (Beowulf's cognate) took the helmet from Onela, as spoil of war, at the Battle on the Ice (mentioned in Beowulf, lines 2391–96). However, Aðals (Eadgils) declared that the king chooses first and took the helmet, which offended Bjarki who had to accept the king's decision. [25]
The Coppergate helmet, from the middle to late eighth century, was found in a Viking settlement in York, but the helmet itself was made by the Angles. [121] Iron plates were used to construct the helmet bowl—iron cheek-pieces were hinged to the sides, and curtain of mail was attached at the back of the helmet for neck protection. [123]
The Guilden Morden boar recalls the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf, [22] where helmets with boar imagery are referenced five times. [8] [9] [45] [46] In three cases [47] they appear to feature freestanding boars atop the helmets, [48] [49] [44] like the Guilden Morden example. [note 4] Such is the case when Grendel's mother seeks vengeance for the ...
The Sutton Hoo helmet differs from the Swedish examples in having an iron skull of a single vaulted shell and has a full face mask, a solid neck guard and deep cheekpieces. These features have been used to suggest an English origin for the helmet's basic structure; the deep cheekpieces have parallels in the Coppergate helmet, found in York. [64]
Benty Grange helmet The Benty Grange helmet, on a modern transparent support Material Iron, horn Weight 1.441 kg (3.18 lb) (replica) Discovered 1848 Benty Grange farm, Monyash, Derbyshire, England 53°10′29.6″N 01°46′58.7″W / 53.174889°N 1.782972°W / 53.174889; -1.782972 Discovered by Thomas Bateman Present location Weston Park Museum, Sheffield Registration J93.1189 The ...
Armor of Beowulf, a mail shirt made by Wayland the Smith. (Anglo-Saxon mythology) Armor of Örvar-Oddr, an impenetrable "silken mailcoat". (Norse mythology) Babr-e Bayan, a suit of armor that Rostam wore in wars described in the Persian epic Shahnameh. The armor was invulnerable against fire, water and weapons. (Persian mythology)