Outrage over city's plans to alter iconic Viking statue

Controversy over a 15-foot tall Viking statue in has heated up in the town of Gimli - specifically over the horns on its helmet, which some say aren't realistic.

With a battle axe in one hand, a horn in the other and a cape hanging down its back, the Viking statue is almost entirely realistic aside from one recognizable detail - the horns that poke out on the side of the battle warrior's helmet.

'There's never been a Viking helmet found with horns,' Julianna Roberts, executive director of the New Iceland Heritage Museum, told .

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