Why do you like hats with horns?
I find them interesting to draw. But not the stereotypical Viking helmet.But with antlers, it becomes more interesting.So is this one with ram horns.I wouldn’t want to actually wear either of these. But drawing them seems cool.
How do i attach heavy horns to my headband?
Hi, ive made a Tarecgosa Cosplay for a cosplay in 2 days time. Ive painted and made some giant ram horns and theyve turned out really heavy. Made from cardboard, tape and lots of paper. I need some help. I dont have any heat glue but i need a fast idea for attaching the horns to either my wig (but are properly too heavy for that) or a headband. It isnt the strongest but it seemed just to rip the cardboard from the weight. Has anyone got any idea how i can keep it up on a headband or my wig? Prephaps not glue it to the wig (will take too long). I have 2 days and today i cant go in to town and tomorrow is too late to glue and stick? Please help. Ideas? Thanks
Fancy Dress on Horse Back?
At christmas time i want to do a fancy dress gymkana and i nedd a costume.Do you have and ideas??I need to be able to ride in it.Preferablely involving the horse but he needs to be able to gallop in it.I would quite like somthing original not like a cowboy (boring!) Plz help me!!!
How do you get or make antlers for your car?
I've never actually made these myself, but after watching this video, I definitely want to give it a try. It's fairly simple- You just need enough felt for the antlers and ears, and then two binder clips to clip to your car windows. This instructable site shows you how to make the antlers with LED: Car Reindeer Hack! Light it up with LEDs and Bike LightsAnd since you asked about buying them, here's a link to a car antler set from amazon: Amazon.com: Reindeer Auto Outfit 2012: Automotive
What was the deal with Robert Baratheon's antler helm?
If the antlers are mere decorations and not heavy steel, then they bear minimal weight or place minimal difficulty on movement. They do seem somewhat fearsome adding height to the wearer. Noble houses traditionally shaped their helms accordingly with their sigils, i.e. falcon wings on Arryn helms, Hound’s snarling dog helm, Lion crest on Lannister helms.On another note, the antlers are symbolism. Robert Baratheon’s sigil is delibrately made to be a Stag as he was presented to be a cuckold inspite of all his womanizing and physic strength. In literary metaphores and symbolism cuckolds have sometimes been described as "wearing the horns of a cuckold" or just "wearing the horns." This is an allusion to the mating habits of Stags who forfeit their mates when they are defeated by another male. Robert lost Lyanna. His betrothed and true love eloped with another man, Rhaegar. Robert’s wife, Cersei, sleeps with Jaime throughout their marriage and Robert has no idea. He is greatly under the influence of Cersei as well.
When did people start believing that Vikings wore horned helmets?
When they began mistaking Vikings, the guys who set sails to raid, explore or trade, with the regular Norse folks (basically, Norvegians, Swedes and Danes).Some of them wore hats/whatever decorated with animal parts, but so did other people following other religion of that kind (down to Earth gods, sacrifices, …) like the celts.They somehow mixxed both images, so that they would be seen as horned delons, ennemies of the Church, etc…Given that it's the emperor Charles Magnus who began the Christianisation of that land, I would say something around the VIth or VIIth century as my earlier guess. If not, then I would go for the late IXth/early Xth century at the latest, when they were conquering lots of lands, among which the Normandy, which would itself grab the Crown of England with the Pope's approval and set a dynasty which would last centuries. They were pretty much Christian by that time (especially Norway) and were present everywhere in sole sort, no need nor room for propaganda then.Which leaves us with the a fork going from the VIth to the VIIth century. Or I might have missed something.
Are Viking horned helmets historically accurate?
No viking in their right mind would craft a helmet (for battle) with horns, and for a good reason.Norse soldiers (to be a viking was an occupation rather than an ethnicity) built helmets to PROTECT THEIR HEADS in battle, just as any other soldier would, and they would have added all sorts of safety precautions to ensure that it fulfilled its purpose (they would have worn padding underneath and hardened+tempered the metal to strengthen it as much as possible). Adding horns to a helmet would have simply provided an enemy warrior with convenient handles to grab a charging Norseman, as well as making a strike from a sword or axe more dangerous than it needs to be as it could undoubtedly incapacitate the wearer or even break their neck in a worst case scenario.However, the Norse would have added spikes (perhaps made from a few spare iron nails lying around) to their helmets. In fact, the Gjermundbu helmet (the only helmet from the Viking age) from Norway shows signs of having had a spike.*This is a replica. The spike of the real thing had since corroded away through time.Spikes were less likely to have been potentially lethal to the helmet’s owner in battle, and a headbutt from a spiked helmet would have been quite a nasty injury to an enemy fighter.And there wasn't anything stopping a Norseman back in the day to have shaped spikes to resemble horns.
Which civilization wore headware with horns on it?
The Valkyries in the Germanic saga. From the link: Horned helmets were given a boost by amateur archaeologist Axel Holmberg, who in the 1840s and '50s assigned to the Viking Age a rock carving that depicted men wearing what he claimed were iron helmets with attached ox horns. In fact the carving dated to the Bronze Age (no later than 500 BC), and only Holmberg could discern what material the horns were made of. His ideas didn't do much to popularize the idea among artists or the public, but quite a few archaeologists and historians were hornswoggled for a while. The professionals eventually came to their senses, but by then horned helmets had become common on Viking heads in art. Richard Wagner is often credited with popularizing the idea of horned helmets, although he never wrote an opera about Vikings. His operatic cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen, the four parts of which were first produced between 1869 and 1876, depicted Germanic gods and heroes in the mythical past, not during the historical Viking era. Most opera fans neither knew nor cared that the Viking Age didn't start until A.D. 793, though, and some apparently assumed all barbarian warriors in northern Europe wore pointy headgear. Wagner had also used a horned helmet in the original production of Tristan und Isolde in 1865. This is even further from Vikings, because the story is a Celtic, not a Germanic, legend. In Wagner's operas, horned helmets are now most closely associated with the Valkyries, but as originally staged the Valkyries wore helmets with wings. (The Valkyries didn't get horny until Wagner died.) The only major figure in the whole cycle who wore a horned helmet in the early productions was Hunding. Those who have somehow managed to stay awake through the entire four-hour production of Die Walküre may remember Hunding as the boor who objected to his wife sleeping with her brother. Wagner and his costume and set designer Carl Emil Doepler probably borrowed the idea not from the few scattered images of Vikings wearing horned helmets, but from the costumes in stage plays about ancient pre-Viking Germans.
Thor: The Dark World (2013 movie): Why does Loki have horns on his helmet? Why does he kill people?
Loki's helmet has horns Odin's(the king of Asgard) helmet has horns. Since Loki's life goal is to become king of Asgard, his helmet reflects his desire.Odin's HelmetLoki's Helmet.Loki is a sociopath, but he's not a sadistic person. He doesn't derive pleasure from murder, but he will kill when necessary for his own gain. Every killing he's made in all three movies is:To intimidate people to do his bidding and prove to them that he's powerful and ruthless. To become some sort of king, ruler or a leader.To prove to his father that he cares about Asgard and him. To prove that he deserves to be the ruler of the kingdom as he did in the first Thor movie.For some ulterior motive which changes according to the situation.Thanks for A2A.Source: http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fa...