Viking Themed Tattoo Sleeve. See more ideas about viking tattoos, norse tattoo, nordic tattoo. Horned helmets are fiction, if your getting a tattoo for heritage reasons do the research get a tattoo true to it.
Here's some visual inspiration from norway, scandinavia, and around the world to help you get inked like a true viking. In norse mythology, a valkyrie is one of a host of female figures who choose those who may die in battle and those who may live. While the above tattoo of a viking is amazing, the common image we have of the brooding bearded viking donning a horned helmet is simply a fabrication.
Viking traveled half of the world in 8,9, 10 and 11 century.
Others get viking tattoos fascinated by the norse mythology, culture and beliefs. Tattoo viking sleeve in progress by gettattoo on deviantart. Popular vikings tattoo designs and the meanings of viking symbols. Along with the common images of viking heroes, the famous gods and goddesses of viking mythology such as odin and thor also make up popular subjects for tattoo arts.