03-01-2011, 04:50 AM
As far as your comment about the mail not matching the helmet, that's not necessarily true at all! I just said I wasn't aware of the Gjermandbu helmet having such a mail aventail (?). That doesn't mean it didn't. Earlier helmets certainly did. Some other period helmets (such as at least one Anglo-Saxon find) have them as well. But as far as bona fide Vikings go, I believe somewhere in the neighborhood of almost exactly one (1) survive. So the helmet on your figure is certainly plausible or even probable.
Kevin
