T-Shirt from a tourist shop in Iceland with a depiction of a stylised dragon head from the prow of a Viking ship. If you know the original or reconstruction which is the basis of this design, please let us know.
T-Shirt advertising Egils Brewery, depicting a Viking drinking from a horn with the caption 'Choice of Vikings'. Viking imagery is used widely in the Icelandic brewing industry.
The company website for Íslensk hollusta refers to the fact that Icelanders used Black Salt until the 15th Century, produced from burning seaweed. It is marketed as Viking Salt to tourists.
An illustration of the Lilleberge Brooch. The burial mound was excavated in the late nineteenth century, but the brooch only came to light in 2014 when it was discovered in material from the excavation held by the British Museum. The brooch is Celtic…
This intricately decorated item, discovered in an excavation in Waterford City, was a trial piece, perhaps intended to be made into a comb. It is currently on display in Reginald's Tower Museum, Waterford.
An illustration of the Norse cosmos at the close of Finnur Magnússon's 1825 Eddalæren og dens oprindelse - vol. 3 (p. 339). This image is followed by a colour illustration of the nine worlds, and a schematic of various cosmologies for…
An illustration of a sword-guard recovered by a diver near Smalls Reef near Skomer island in Wales, and dating to c. 1100-1125. It is decorated with typical Insular Urnes style motifs.
Published in Karl Gjellerup, Den ældre Eddas gudesange oversatte samt indledede og forklarede af Karl Gjellerup med tegninger af Lorenz Frølich (Copenhagen, 1895) at p. 69. Lorenz Frølich provided illustrations throughout the work, and this image…
Detail from an illustration of Yggdrasil on fol. 43r of the 17th century Icelandic manuscript AM 738 4to (the Edda oblongata), housed in The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies in Reykjavík, Iceland. The manuscript…
Depiction of Ansgar with his church on the fountain designed by Anders Bundgaard (801-65). Ansgar was a German missionary (later Archbishop of Hamburg, and later canonised) who was given permission to build the first church in Ribe by King Horik. He…