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The hoard of ninety-three games pieces was found on the Isle of Lewis and was exhibited in Edinburgh in 1831. [1] Most accounts have said the pieces were found at Uig Bay) on the west coast of Lewis but Caldwell et al. of National Museums Scotland (NMS) consider that Mealista), also in the parish of Uig and some 6 miles (10 km) further south down the coast, is a more likely place for the hoard ...
They carried out a post-excavation of the discovery site without any further objects coming to light. Marstrander was able to ascertain that it was an exceptionally rich man's grave from the Viking Age, and took the objects back to Oslo. In May of the same year, Gjermundbo found another grave in the same mound.
Most Viking men had shoulder-length hair and beards, and slaves (thralls) were usually the only men with short hair. [172] The length varied according to personal preference and occupation. Men involved in warfare, for example, may have had slightly shorter hair and beards for practical reasons.
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.
Sketch of the Svinfylking. The Svinfylking, Old Norse for "swine array" or "boar snout", [1] was a formation used in battle. Related to the wedge formation, it was used in Iron Age Scandinavia and later by the Vikings. [2]
In the absence of a police force, the clan was the primary force of security in Norse society, as the clansmen were obliged by honour to avenge one another. The Norse clan was not tied to a certain territory in the same way as a Scottish clan, where the chief owned the territory.
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The Sutton Hoo helmet is a decorated Anglo-Saxon helmet found during a 1939 excavation of the Sutton Hoo ship-burial.It was buried around the years c. 620–625 AD and is widely associated with an Anglo-Saxon leader, King Rædwald of East Anglia; its elaborate decoration may have given it a secondary function akin to a crown.