I remember some notions of horn like things on the heads of both medittarrenean sea peoples and Skandinavian ones. Also, even like 1k years BC Greeks were basically the king of [sea side settlements](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeks_in_Georgia#/media/File:Location_greek_ancient.png) in Europe.
Given how early Vikings started to trade with Greek’ish region i suspect it could actually be the same greeks finding these ways to scandinavia, assimilating and later creating the culture of its own. Just like vikings did in Dnipra river basin creating Kievan Rus.
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Horns was a cosmetic thing added to the wardrobe of an opera later on, no viking helmets that have been found from that era are decorated with horns.
Firstly, “Viking” was a thing you did rather than an ethnic or political group. Separate peoples such as Swedes, Geats and Danes and others all went viking.
Roman historian Tacitus described people living in modern day Sweden (Suiones, which might have been proto-Swedes) with a powerful fleet of ships similar to viking longships as early as 98 AD.
And there have been people living in Sweden since after the ice age. Contemporaries to Mycenaean Greece maintained the maintained close trade links with them. See the entry on [Nordic Bronze Age](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_Bronze_Age) on wikipedia.
Vikings did not have horned helmets, or more exactly there is no evidence they had that. The idea is one from the late 19th century and become popularized i the costumes for the first Bayreuth Festival production of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen in 1876.
There are petroglyphs in Scandinavia with horned helmets but they are from the bonze/stone age. most are from 1800-550 BC. The Viking age is 8th to 12 century AD. So the petroglyph predates it by 1300 years. This means that a moment modern motorcycle helmet is only off by 1200 years for the early Viking age.
So the motorcycle helmet is less agonistic than a horned helmet on a Viking.
Viking did not trade with ancient Greeks for the same reason. They did trade with the Mediterranian but Greece and the surrounding area it what is today known as the Byzantine empire. So it is Christians and Muslims in that area they are in contact with.
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Celts used horned helmets for ceremonies.
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