Dear Norway,
My birthday is coming up (October 4th), and I'm getting a cosplay costume later on. I was wondering if you would like to guess?
Also I believe my states Football Team; The Minnesota Vikings might have come from your vikings...though we have Horns on our helmets...where did that myth "Vikin Helmets have Horns" come from?
Love
Felicia
Hei Felicia.
Guess what your cosplay is? …what's a cosplay? Does it have something to do with what my "mad fangirl" told me about that Japan had made?
I don't know if they came from the Vikings. I was briefly in America in my teenage years. England doesn't like me pointing out I met America long before he did. The horns come from the drinking horns. When archaeologist found them, they didn't understand what they were, and thought they were supposed to be on the helmets to appear intimidating. It took a while until I made them understand that those were drinking horns. We drank mead for them. We never put them on our helmets. Actually most Vikings didn't even use helmets. They were bothersome, clammy when running, cold if not, and just in the way.
Even so, most pictures and souvenirs and the like still sport Vikings with horned helmets, since that has somehow become their "stereotype". I doubt that will change.
Norge.
(a/n: Has anyone noticed Norway enjoys speaking of his teenager years? :3 He always talks of it with an expressionless face, and tries not to make too much of it, since many of the other nations were not very fond of them at that time, but he enjoyed being a Viking and he enjoys remembering his wilder days, even though he is so stoic and calm now. xD Oh, Norway. Also, I don't know the "not wearing helmets" thing as a fact, but I read it somewhere that there've not been all that many Viking helmets findings, which leads people to believe they were not so widely used. If someone knows the details on this, please tell me. Then again, why would the Vikings need helmets? xD (long a/n O.O Sorry xO ))