Free Viking SVG files

Horns or no horns

No horned helmet has ever been found in a Viking grave. The horns come from nineteenth-century paintings and opera costumes, but they are what most people picture, so both kinds are here: the storybook helmet with horns and the domed helmet with a spectacle guard, which is modelled on the one complete Viking helmet that survives. Use the first for parties and costumes and the second when you want it right.

The vegvisir and the hammer amulet are old signs with many modern uses. They are drawn here as plain shapes with no words or runes attached.

Cutting notes

The helmets, the shield, the horns and the hammer are bold shapes that cut well down to 50 mm. The longship has oars and rigging about 1.7 mm thick when it is 100 mm wide, so cut it at 150 mm or more from card or wood, or use the layered version, where the fine parts sit on a backing.

The vegvisir is a line drawing. In vinyl, cut it at 120 mm or more and weed from the centre outwards along each stave.

How to open the files

• Cricut Design Space: choose Upload, pick the SVG, and add it to the canvas. Set the width you want; the shape is already welded.
• Silhouette Studio: Designer Edition and above open the SVG. The free Basic Edition does not, so open the DXF instead.
• LightBurn, xTool Creative Space and Glowforge: import the SVG, then set the layer to cut, score or engrave.
• Inkscape, Illustrator and Affinity: open the SVG. It is a plain filled path, so you can recolour it, add a stroke or combine it with your own work.
• Printing or sublimation: use the PNG, which has a transparent background.

Each design page lists the file’s narrowest part at seven sizes, so you can tell whether it will survive at the size you plan to cut.

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