HELPING THE OTHERS REALIZE THE ADVANTAGES OF VIKING RELICS

A clue—in truth, for many years, the only clue—arrived in 1943 with the invention of the damaged spangenhelm helmet in Ringerike, Norway. Learned in 9 fragments amongst a cache of weaponry and other burial artefacts, the piece – named Gjermundbhu, after the farm in which it was discovered – was painstakingly restored, offering a literal gli