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The Trundholm sun chariot (Danish: Solvognen) is a Nordic Bronze Age artifact discovered in Denmark. It is a representation of the sun chariot , a bronze statue of a horse and a large bronze disk, which are placed on a device with spoked wheels.
The disc was the centre of an exhibition entitled Der geschmiedete Himmel (German "The forged sky"), showing 1,600 Bronze Age artefacts, including the Trundholm sun chariot, shown at Halle from 15 October 2004 to 22 May 2005, from 1 July to 22 October 2005 in Copenhagen, from 9 November 2005 to 5 February 2006 in Vienna, from 10 March to 16 ...
Trundholm sun chariot – A bronze sun disc pulled by a horse from Trundholm, Zealand, Denmark This page was last edited on 10 November 2024, at 22:00 (UTC). ...
The Bronze Age symbol has also been connected with the four-spoked chariot wheel, which is attested in Bronze Age Scandinavia, Central Europe and Greece (compare the Linear B ideogram 243 "wheel" 𐃏). In the context of a culture that celebrated the sun chariot, it may thus have had a "solar" connotation (compare the Trundholm sun chariot).
Trundholm's sun chariot. Proof of the ancient association of the horse and the Sun among Germanic-Scandinavian peoples is provided by the discovery in Denmark of an ancient bronze, known as the "Trundholm solar chariot", representing the Sun pulled by a horse and dating from around 1,400 BC.
The gilded side of the Trundholm sun chariot. The association between the sun and shields is noted both in Þórsdrápa, in which the sun is described as 'the splendid sky-shield', [12] [note 1] and in Skáldskaparmál, in which a kenning for 'shield' is the "sun of the ship" (Old Norse: skipsól).
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It is a representation of the sun chariot, consisting of a bronze statue of a horse and a large bronze disk, which are placed on a device with spoked wheels. The sculpture was discovered with no accompanying objects in 1902 in a peat bog on the moor of Trundholm, on the peninsula of Odsherred in the northwestern part of Zealand.