As the title of this posting indicates, this lead has to do with VIKINGS!
No, not the football team...
Actual, real VIKINGS!
Yes, some may find this lead hard to believe, being that we have been taught for generations that the Vikings never made it inland.
This has proven false.
There have been too many discoveries of Norse artifacts dating between 900 and 1400 AD on Canadian and American soil...actually FROM our soil. These are artifacts that line up and fit together (forming a perfect path down through to the Kensington Stone) all too well for the naysayers....but, the whole debate about Norse incursion into the interior of Canada and the USA is an entirely separate topic, though it is intertwined with this lead. I won't bother debating the whole Norse in Norther America subject here, as I don't wish to bore some of you with the hows, whys, whats, wheres, etc....but, be forewarned, I have a couple leads of this nature.
In this case, the items in question consist of a Norse helmet and sword, hidden in a cave in a wilderness area of Manitoba.
The lead was given to me from the person who saw the items as a child, who stumbled upon them due to his curiosity about the contents of said cave which was in a rock face. He and another child climbed said rock face to check out the small cave, and looked in, seeing a helmet with a spike on top, as well as a dagger or sword.
This was over 50 years ago, but, being in the area it was/is, I suspect the artifacts are still sitting in the cave untouched.
The description of the helmet as having a spike on top initially gave me the impression that it sounded like an early militia type helmet or a perhaps a German Pickelhaube.
However, the location made no sense if it was a German helmet, and unlikely, though not out of the realm of possibility, of being a early militia helmet of some sort.
Considering the general location, it would make perfect sense for it to be a particular styles of Norse helmet, which was made in such a way that there is a point on the top. (On a side note, the typical horned "Viking helmet" seen in movies, etc, is essentially an Operatic/Hollywood fabrication)
But, I will not know for sure it is Norse, of course, until I am able to see for myself. Even if it is another type of helmet, it certainly does not belong in the middle of the wilderness.
What ever type of helmet it is, it is sure to be a treasure, and bring up a new mystery of how it and the dagger/sword got there.
Go Vikings!
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