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A wooden bed in the Viking Age Oseberg Ship buried near Tønsberg, Norway, features a carving of the symbol on an ornately stylized bedpost and the Oseberg tapestry fragments, a partially preserved tapestry found within the ship burial, also features the symbol. [3] Additionally, the valknut appears prominently on two picture stones from ...
The valknut: According to scholar Leszek Gardeła, "Probably the most vivid manifestation of the number nine motif in the material culture of the Viking Age comes in the form of the so-called valknútr, a symbol carved in wood, metal and stone which usually takes the form of three inter-locking triangles (giving a total of nine triangle points)."
Another commonly used Heathen symbol is the valknut, used to represent the god Odin or Woden. [160] Practitioners also commonly decorate their material—and sometimes themselves, in the form of tattoos—with runes, the alphabet used by Early Medieval Germanic languages.
The Valknut symbol in a form topologically equivalent to a closed three-link-chain. See also Image:Valknut-Symbol-borromean.svg and Image:Valknut-Symbol-triquetra.svg. Note that this form of the Valknut probably did not occur in medieval times (as versions of the Valknut equivalent to the Trefoil knot and the Borromean Rings linked above did). Date
Detail from Stora Hammars I shows a man lying on his belly with another man using a weapon on his back, a Valknut, and two birds, one of which is held by a man to the right. The Stora Hammars image stones are four Viking Age image stones located in Stora Hammars, Lärbro parish, Gotland, Sweden dating from around the 7th century CE. [citation ...
The Valknut symbol in a form topologically equivalent to a Triquetra or trefoil knot. Found in early medieval Germanic inscriptions (see Tangelgarda Odin.jpg). See also Valknut-Symbol-borromean.svg and Valknut-Symbol-3linkchain-closed.png. For an alternate version of with thicker black lines see Valknut-Symbol-triquetra-alternate.svg.
The blood-eagle ritual-killing rite appears in just two instances in Norse literature, plus oblique references some have interpreted as referring to the same practice. The primary versions share certain commonalities: the victims are both noblemen (Halfdan Haaleg or "Long-leg" was a prince; Ælla of Northumbria a king), and both of the ...
The Valknut symbol in a form topologically equivalent to the Borromean rings. Found in early medieval Germanic inscriptions. For monochrome version, see File:Valknut.svg. See also Image:Valknut-Symbol-3linkchain-closed.png and Image:Valknut-Symbol-triquetra.svg.