Viking picture stone, Gotland Museum, Visby, Gotland, Sweden
Viking picture stone with panelled scenes, including here (top), welcome scene with a woman possibly a valkyrie, with drinking horn of mead, horse with helmet spear and shield, warriors fighting, an animal and man holding ring as symbol of trust, 8th - 9th century, possibly a memorial to a man who has died in battle, in the Gotland Museum, founded 1875 by the Friends of Gotland's Antiquity Society, in Visby, on the island of Gotland, Sweden. Picture by Manuel Cohen
Picture No
14074185
Media ID
45746497
Size
8268px x 5600px
(13.7MB)
Credit
Manuel Cohen / Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Photograph by Manuel Cohen
Date
2009
