The Vikings were the seafaring Norsemen of the 8th thru 11th centuries. They came from Scandinavia on ships and colonized northern Europe. They even made it to parts of North America.
The most well-known Viking is Erik Thorvaldsson, also known as Erik the Red. This is the fella who settled Greenland. He also has a funny little Tech Deck Dude named after him.
Erik's G1 figure has an axe and shield. His G3 figure has only an axe.
They both have the horned helmets which we associate with vikings. Despite how popular this concept is, archeologists tell us that Vikings did not have horned helmets at all.
Erik also has another figure in the Astro-Nots series. Here he has a fancy futuristic looking axe and a space helmet with those darn horns on the outside of it. The idea of this figure could possibly relate to this obscure science fiction novel of 1962, Space Viking. But, I doubt it. It seems more likely that the TDD designers were just on this weird kick of putting the dudes in helmets and then putting their defining features on the outside of the helmets. This was a really dumb series.
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