Category: Drinking horns

Culture and language are intimately linked. Therefore, one of the best ways to better understand a people is to better understand their language. So, Vikings fans – what language did the Vikings speak? The answer to that question is complicated as the Vikings were not homogeneous over space and time, andRead More …

THE VIKINGS When we talk about Vikings the only pictures that come in our mind are of nomadic people with great culture, the very gift of Vikings, ‘Drinking Horns’ are known as antiques in the modern world. Following the traces, we get to know that Vikings had a great history; either weRead More …

What are Drinking Horns? : Link to the Vikings A drinking horn is the horn of a bovid used as a drinking vessel. Drinking horns comes from Classical Antiquity especially the Balkans, and remained in use for ceremonial functions throughout the Dark Ages and the Former fashionable period in some factors of Europe, remarkably in Germanic Europe, and in the Caucasus. Drinking horns stay aRead More …