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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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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Boar’s Head urges consumers to throw away the recalled products or return them to the store for a refund. By now, deli meats affected by the Boar’s Head recall should be off the shelves of ...
Bascinet without accessories. The bascinet – also bassinet, basinet, or bazineto – was a Medieval European open-faced combat helmet.It evolved from a type of iron or steel skullcap, but had a more pointed apex to the skull, and it extended downwards at the rear and sides to afford protection for the neck.