A Drotte and a Fola, priest and priestess of the

A Drotte and a Fola, priest and priestess of the Gothic Scandinavians. He wears a long habit and holds a large horn of gold to receive a human blood sacrifice. She wears a scapular, short linen skirt, trousers, carries the sacrificial knife inscribed with Runes. In the background, a naked Fola performs a human sacrifice. Handcoloured aquatint by R. Havell from an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith from Samuel Meyrick's Costume of the Original Inhabitants of the British Islands, London, 1821

19th Century Ancient History Aquatint Charles Hamilton Smith Goth Habit Havell Linen Priestess Runes Sacrifice Sacrificial Samuel Meyrick Scandinavians Vikings

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