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...
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life, producing expressions like Viking age, Viking culture, Viking art, Viking religion, Viking ship and so on. The Viking Age in Scandinavian history is...
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The Viking Age (about 800–1050 CE) was the period during the Middle Ages when Norsemen known as Vikings undertook large-scale raiding, colonising, conquest...
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Knowledge about military technology of the Viking Age (late 8th to mid-11th century Europe) is based on relatively sparse archaeological finds, pictorial...
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had its own distinct artistic style, such as Anglo-Saxon art or Viking art. Medieval art was produced in many media, and works survive in large numbers...
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Viking metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music characterized by a lyrical and thematic focus on Norse mythology, Norse paganism, and the Viking Age. Viking...
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Brooch (section Art Nouveau)
Scandinavian expansion is known as the Viking Age, and the art created during this time period is known as Viking art. Metalwork, including brooches, produced...
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Viking Press (formally Viking Penguin, also listed as Viking Books) is an American publishing company owned by Penguin Random House. It was founded in...
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Nordic art and is art specific for the Scandinavian countries Denmark, Sweden and Norway. Norse art, the art of the Vikings, is a form of Nordic art from...
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Medieval Scandinavian architecture (category Viking art)
known in Scandinavian culture as "Nausts", are the buildings used to hold Viking Ships during the winter and any time they could not sail. They were usually...
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Clonmacnoise Croziers are heavily influenced by Viking art and have interlace patterns in the Ringerike or Viking art#Urnes-styles. The Cross of Cong is a 12th-century...
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wider Nordic art of Scandinavia. Art from what is today Denmark forms part of the art of the Nordic Bronze Age, and then Norse and Viking art. Danish medieval...
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Eyrarland Statue (category Viking art)
Richard (2001). Thor the wind-raiser and the Eyrarland image. London: Viking Society for Northern Research, University College London. p. 82. ISBN 978-0-903521-52-9...
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The Lilleberge Viking Burial or Lilleberge Ship Burial is a major hoard of Viking objects found in a barrow at Lilleberge in Namdalen, central Norway in...
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The Viking Age sword (also Viking sword) or Carolingian sword is the type of sword prevalent in Western and Northern Europe during the Early Middle Ages...
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Salin Style III is found mainly in Scandinavia, and may also be called Viking art. Byzantine enameling highly influenced Migration period metalwork. The...
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Oseberg tapestry fragments (category Viking art)
The Oseberg tapestry is a fragmentary tapestry, discovered within the Viking Oseberg ship burial in Norway. The tapestry (dated to about 834AD) is 16 to...
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Culture of Sweden (section Art)
often considered to be Viking art, which had a strong influence throughout Europe, especially Northern Europe, during the Viking Age. There are also several...
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Visby lenses (category Viking art)
lens-shaped manufactured objects made of rock crystal (quartz) found in several Viking graves on the island of Gotland, Sweden, and dating from the 11th or 12th...
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Hiddensee treasure (category Viking art)
History and will be on display there from December 2015[needs update]. Viking art Curmsun Disc Claudia Hoffmann: Der Goldschmuck von Hiddensee. In: WELT-KULTUR-ERBE...
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Heysham hogback (category Viking art)
Heritage List for England. Retrieved 4 May 2024. Bailey, Richard N. (1980). Viking Age Sculpture in Northern England. London: Collins. p. 97. ISBN 9780002162289...
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Longship (redirect from Viking longship)
used by the Norsemen (commonly known as the Vikings) for commerce, exploration, and warfare during the Viking Age, many of the longship's characteristics...
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Raven banner (category Viking art)
hravenlandeye) was a flag, possibly totemic in nature, flown by various Viking chieftains and other Scandinavian rulers during the 9th, 10th and 11th centuries...
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Viking expansion was the historical movement which led Norse explorers, traders and warriors, the latter known in modern scholarship as Vikings, to sail...
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Scandinavian Scotland (redirect from Viking Scotland)
Scotland was the period from the 8th to the 15th centuries during which Vikings and Norse settlers, mainly Norwegians and to a lesser extent other Scandinavians...
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St Ninian's Isle Treasure (category Viking art)
location had vanished from living memory ... At the occasion of the first Viking Congress in 1951 Dr W. Douglas Simpson suggested a search might prove rewarding...
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Odin from Lejre (category Viking art)
Odin's two wolves, Geri and Freki. However, some scholars specialising in Viking Age dress and gender representation have pointed out that the person is...
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fittings. One period when Nordic art exerted a strong influence over the rest of northern Europe was in Viking art, and there are many survivals, both...
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Hogback (sculpture) (category Viking art)
indicating the inclusion of Cornwall in a "western British Viking-age sculptural tradition". Anglo-Saxon art#Monumental sculpture and wall painting The Botkyrka...
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Gorm's Cup (category Viking art)
thought it a drinking vessel for the alcoholic beverage called beor. Viking art Animal style Christianisation of Scandinavia Green, J. R. (1902). A Short...
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