Picture stone from Tjängvide, Gotland, Sweden

Title

Picture stone from Tjängvide, Gotland, Sweden

Subject

Picture stone

Description

Tjängvide image stone (G 110) from near Ljugarn, Gotland and housed in the Historiska museet in Stockholm, Sweden. It includes a runic memorial inscription as well as a series of images including the widely reproduced depiction of a figure on an eight-legged horse, usually interpreted as Odin riding Sleipnir; a Viking ship; and a woman bearing a horn.

For more information see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tj%C3%A4ngvide_image_stone

Publisher

Wikimedia Commons

Date

2008

Contributor

Wikimedia User Berig

Rights

CC BY-SA 4.0

Format

jpg

Type

Still Image

Identifier

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/Tj%C3%A4ngvide.jpg

Coverage

Sweden
Viking Age

Files

Tjängvide.jpg

Geolocation

Social Bookmarking

Comments

Allowed tags: <p>, <a>, <em>, <strong>, <ul>, <ol>, <li>

Item Relations

This Item dcterms:source Item: Souvenir Lapel Pin, Imitation Cloisonne Sleipnir Horse from Iceland
Item: Odin on Sleipnir Free Vector Image dcterms:requires This Item
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