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Erotic Saturnalia 🌲
Erotic Saturnalia 🌲
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago
Bronze figurine of a seated figure, about 6.7 cm, from about AD 1000 that was recovered at the Eyrarland farm in the area of Akureyri, Iceland. The artwork was made around 1000 CE and may depict the Norse god Thor. If the figure is correctly identified as Thor, Thor is holding his hammer, Mjölnir, sculpted in a typically Icelandic cross-like shape. It has been suggested that the statue is related to a scene from the Poetic Edda poem Thrymskvida (Þrymskviða) where Thor recovers his hammer while seated by grasping it with both hands during the wedding ceremony to Thrymr. Another suggestion comes from the archeologist Kristján Eldjárn, who has written that it could be the central piece from a set of the game hnefatafl, based on its similarities to a smaller whalebone figure discovered in Baldursheimur together with black and white gaming pieces and a die.
Bronze figurine of a seated figure, about 6.7 cm, from about AD 1000 that was recovered at the Eyrarland farm in the area of Akureyri, Iceland. The artwork was made around 1000 CE and may depict the Norse god Thor. If the figure is correctly identified as Thor, Thor is holding his hammer, Mjölnir, sculpted in a typically Icelandic cross-like shape. It has been suggested that the statue is related to a scene from the Poetic Edda poem Thrymskvida (Þrymskviða) where Thor recovers his hammer while seated by grasping it with both hands during the wedding ceremony to Thrymr. Another suggestion comes from the archeologist Kristján Eldjárn, who has written that it could be the central piece from a set of the game hnefatafl, based on its similarities to a smaller whalebone figure discovered in Baldursheimur together with black and white gaming pieces and a die.
Bronze figurine of a seated figure, about 6.7 cm, from about AD 1000 that was recovered at the Eyrarland farm in the area of Akureyri, Iceland. The artwork was made around 1000 CE and may depict the Norse god Thor. If the figure is correctly identified as Thor, Thor is holding his hammer, Mjölnir, sculpted in a typically Icelandic cross-like shape. It has been suggested that the statue is related to a scene from the Poetic Edda poem Thrymskvida (Þrymskviða) where Thor recovers his hammer while seated by grasping it with both hands during the wedding ceremony to Thrymr. Another suggestion comes from the archeologist Kristján Eldjárn, who has written that it could be the central piece from a set of the game hnefatafl, based on its similarities to a smaller whalebone figure discovered in Baldursheimur together with black and white gaming pieces and a die.