Title
Pendants depicting Viking heroes
Caption
Pendants depicting Viking heroes, These face masks were part of a large Viking hoard which was buried around the year 1000. According to Odins law as narrated in the Icelandic poem of the Edda, treasure hidden in this life would be available in the next. Sweden. Viking. 800 1000 AD. Bjorke Parish, Folhagen, Gotland.
Info+
Werner Forman Archive/Statens Historiska Museum, Stockholm
Credit line
Photo12/Universal Images Group/Werner Forman
Reference
UMG12A31_415
Model release
No
License type
Rights managed
Available size
32,1Mb (1,5Mb) / 11,4in x 10,9in / 3412 x 3284 (300dpi)