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The Rällinge statuette is a seated figure in bronze, discovered in Södermanland, Sweden in 1904 and dated to the Viking Age.The seven-centimetre-high figure, who wears a conical headdress, clasps his pointed beard and has an erect penis, has often been assumed to be the god Freyr.
Gold jewellery from the 10th century Hiddensee treasure, mixing Norse pagan and Christian symbols. Pair of "tortoise brooches," which were worn by married Viking women. Viking art, also known commonly as Norse art, is a term widely accepted for the art of Scandinavian Norsemen and Viking settlements further afield—particularly in the British Isles and Iceland—during the Viking Age of the ...
In 1904, a Viking Age statuette identified as a depiction of Freyr was discovered on the farm Rällinge in Lunda, Södermanland parish in the province of Södermanland, Sweden. The depiction features a cross-legged seated, bearded male with an erect penis. He is wearing a pointed cap or helmet and stroking his triangular beard.
Harald Fairhair [a] (Old Norse: Haraldr Hárfagri; c. 850 – c. 932) was a Norwegian king.According to traditions current in Norway and Iceland in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, he reigned from c. 872 to 930 and was the first King of Norway.
five images in a row, two of them dogs (of which one is facing a sun or star), the others possibly plants. A: 7: three symbols of unclear significance, two plant-like and one like two boards or flags with triple dots or holes: a vertical dotted line, and an arrangement of vertical wavy and zig-zag lines B: 1: the Elder Futhark inscription B: 2
Erik most likely earned the epithet "the Red" due to the color of his hair and beard. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] According to Icelandic sagas , Erik was born in the Jæren district of Rogaland , Norway, as the son of Thorvald Asvaldsson ; to which Thorvald would later be banished from Norway, and would sail west to Iceland with Erik and his family. [ 3 ]
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Norse, Nordic, or Scandinavian mythology, is the body of myths belonging to the North Germanic peoples, stemming from Old Norse religion and continuing after the Christianization of Scandinavia as the Nordic folklore of the modern period.