Editing Vikings (section)

====Use of skulls as drinking vessels====
There is no evidence that Vikings [[Skull cup|drank out of the skulls]] of vanquished enemies. This was a misconception based on a passage in the [[skald]]ic poem [[Krákumál]] speaking of heroes drinking from ''ór bjúgviðum hausa'' (branches of skulls). This was a reference to [[drinking horn]]s, but was mistranslated in the 17th century<ref>By Magnús Óláfsson, in Ole Worm, ''Runar seu Danica Litteratura antiquissima, vulgo Gothica dicta'' (Copenhagen 1636).</ref> as referring to the skulls of the slain.<ref>E. W. Gordon, ''An Introduction to Old Norse'' (2nd edition, Oxford 1962) pp. lxix–lxx.</ref>