Abbas-Al-Morim
Sage
In a short story I'm writing I have this culture which is a mix of Viking and Celt. They plunder and raid and use longships. Their language is half Norse, half Germanic with a tiny smidgeon of Celtic (I only use the language for names).
Their culture is more Celtic though. But it comes to armor, they do not wear chainmail (it makes to much noise). Instead they prefer padded armor, studded leather and (for heavy infantry) scale armor. When it comes to helmets, they do wear Celtic helmets. One of the helmets I want to use is this one. The problem is, I don't now how to describe it. If I say "horned helmets" then people will think they're stereotypical fantasy vikings (an image I really want to avoid and there are already so many parallels). They'll think of these. Which are not only historically incorrect (never existed), they are silly. I want to describe my helmet in a way that avoids this cliché.
Does anyone have any ideas or tips?
Their culture is more Celtic though. But it comes to armor, they do not wear chainmail (it makes to much noise). Instead they prefer padded armor, studded leather and (for heavy infantry) scale armor. When it comes to helmets, they do wear Celtic helmets. One of the helmets I want to use is this one. The problem is, I don't now how to describe it. If I say "horned helmets" then people will think they're stereotypical fantasy vikings (an image I really want to avoid and there are already so many parallels). They'll think of these. Which are not only historically incorrect (never existed), they are silly. I want to describe my helmet in a way that avoids this cliché.
Does anyone have any ideas or tips?