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1. viking.style › did-vikings-drink-from-the-skullsDid Vikings Drink From The Skulls Of Their Enemies?

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   Contrary to popular belief, the Vikings didn’t use the skulls of their enemies as drinking vessels. Instead, they mainly used wooden or ceramic cups, bowls, and, most iconically, drinking horns. The latter, often made from cattle or goat horns, held a significant place in Viking culture, symbolizing power, wealth, and hospitality.

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   Vikings did not actually drink from the skulls of their enemies. This was a misunderstanding of an Old Norse poetic kenning. People once thought that Vikings drank from the skulls of their enemies. This is a misunderstanding of Krákumál 25 where it states:

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   Jul 28, 2021 · While the myth makes for great fear-inducing movie scenes, there is no actual evidence that Vikings drank beverages out of the skulls of the enemies that they defeated and killed. The myth is based on a 17th-century mistranslation of a passage of the skaldic poem Krákumál. Source: Micaela Parente / Unsplash.

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   Feb 16, 2024 · We know that it even happened in medieval Europe, though the context was anything but kinky. Meet Krum, the Bulgarian Khan who defeated the Byzantines and turned the head of the emperor into a drinking cup. And to make matters worse, while Krum was sipping wine from his enemies’ skulls, his strict laws had made drinking illegal.

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   A skull cup is a drinking vessel or eating bowl made from an inverted human calvaria that has been cut away from the rest of the skull. The use of a human skull as a drinking cup in ritual use or as a trophy is reported in numerous sources throughout history and among various peoples, and among Western cultures is most often associated with the ...

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   Did Vikings Drink from the skulls of their enemies?

   • Vikings did not actually drink from the skulls of their enemies. This was a misunderstanding of an Old Norse poetic kenning. People once thought that Vikings drank from the skulls of their enemies. This is a misunderstanding of Krákumál 25 where it states: 'drink beer at once from the curved branches of skulls'.

   Did Vikings drink from the skulls of their enemies?

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   Who used skulls as drinking vessels?

   • Among the few examples of using skulls as drinking vessels are the Scythians, an ancient nomadic people who lived in what is now southern Siberia. Herodotus, a Greek historian, wrote in the 5th century BC that the Scythians scalped their enemies and used their skulls as drinking cups.

   Did Vikings Drink From The Skulls Of Their Enemies?

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   Why did Khan Krum drink from a skull?

   • By drinking from it, Khan Krum followed an ancient Bulgarian tradition of drinking from your enemy’s skull to consume his soul’s energy. Krum was not only a military genius. After defeating the Avars in the north, he asked the war prisoners why their kingdom became so weak.

   Khan Krum and Bulgarian tradition of drinking from your enemy's skull

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   Who made the skull of Nikephoros I a drinking cup?

   • Bulgarian Khan Krum the Fearsome feasts with his nobles as a servant (right) brings the skull of Nikephoros I, fashioned into a drinking cup, full of wine. According to Herodotus ' Histories and Strabo 's Geographica, the Scythians killed their enemies and made their skulls into drinking cups.

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