Greek Helmets

Ancient Greek helmets are some of the most recognizable in the historic war machines. The term "Greek helmets" is quite broad. There is really no one helmet that signifies the Greek culture. Trojan helmets, Spartan helmets, and Corinthian helmets are all under the heading of Greek helmets.
Some of the most popular helmets for collectors and reenactments are the Trojan Greek war helmet. For example, you'll find Trojan helmets in silver, black, brass, and bronze. In fact, one even comes in a war paint camouflage color. The plumes will come in a variety of orange, red, and black. Spartan Greek helmets are also a very popular sort of helmet. The first is a plain silver (made of iron and steel) helmet in a basic design. No plume is attached. This was worn by the common Spartan foot soldiers who did the brunt of the fighting. Some of the elite soldiers or leaders of the Spartans wore a helmet with a red plume. Corinthian Greek helmets had a very
similar design to Spartan helmets in terms of the "face" of the helmet. Where they differ is that the frontal cheek guards a bit longer than the Spartan helmets.

Viking Helmets

During the Viking age, Viking Helmets were typically fairly simple: a bowl with a prominent nose guard. Both before and after the Viking era, Viking Helmets bowls were made from one piece of iron, hammered into shape (such as the reproduction Norman helm shown to the left). However, during the Viking era, Viking Helmets typically were made from several pieces of iron riveted together, called a spangenhelm style of helm. It's easier to make a Viking Helmet this way, requiring less labor, which may be why it was used.The spangenhelm used a single iron band that circled the head around the brow, riveted to two more iron bands that crossed at the top of the head. The four openings were filled with riveted iron plates (right) to create the bowl. In some cases, hard leather may have been used to fill the four openings, rather than iron, to reduce cost. The nose guard was riveted to the brow. At first glance, the nose guard looks awkward and nearly useless, but it can prevented nose from being broken at least once.Even a sword could penetrate Viking Helmets when wielded by a powerful combatant.But iron was difficult to make during the Viking era, Viking Helmets were expensive. As a result, Viking Helmets were expensive and thus not common. Anyone who could afford one would certainly want one, but not too many people could afford one. Viking Helmets were prized and carefully preserved, repaired as needed, and passed from generation to generation. Some may well have been used for centuries before the iron became too thin and weak to provide any real protection. SO aren't the history of Viking Helmets interesting, if you want to buy them just shop it from here.

Roman swords

The first Roman swords we're actually straight bladed, single edged weapons imported from Korea and China known as chokuto, which were later replaced with the curved blade variety at the end of the 8th Century. The name of the curved blade swords which replaced them was Tachi. The reason for this transformation was roman swords found that a curved sword could be drawn from the scabbard more swiftly and provided a far more effective cutting angle.

Samurai Armor

The armour worn by the samurai over the centuries was incredibly varied yet throughout the samurai age the principles of the samurai armour remained largely the same save for a few subtle changes. It consisted of a kabuto (helmet) for the head; Samurai Dragoon Armor; Oda Nobunaga Japanese Suit of Armour. Each piece of samurai armour consisted of a set of small iron plates called kozane laced together by leather cord. The resultant strips were then lacquered to protect the material against rust and then a series were tied together horizontally with silk cords called kebiki-odoshi to produce a light and fairly resilient samurai armour plate. In kabuto there were also many different kinds of crests (maedate). These were usually fixed in a slot above the helmet's peak and often took the form of stylised antlers but they could also be any shape or form and could just as easily occupy a socket on the side of the helmet or the back. In samurai suit of armour some samurai, usually high-ranking individuals, liked to wear the jinbaori. This garment was a large surcoat and was usually sleeveless or had short sleeves. The idea of a samurai wearing a jinbaori was to give him a more impressive appearance, certainly the surcoat was often highly patterned and embroidered.