Knife blade with bone handle with incised ring and dot ornament and two bands of cross-hatching. More detail can be found at http://www.yorkmuseumstrust.org.uk/
Creator
York Museums Trust
Source
York Museums Trust
Publisher
York Museums Trust
Date
13/11/2016
Contributor
Karen Holgate
Rights
Image courtesy of York Museums Trust :: http://yorkmuseumstrust.org.uk :: CC BY-SA 4.0
Article about 'Understanding the Heysham Hogback' by Thor Ewing
Subject
Article
Description
Online article hosted on the website of writer and historian Thor Ewing giving his take on the tenth-century hogback from Heysham in Lancashire. Hogbacks - seemingly a distinctively Anglo-Norse style of grave marker - are some of the most discussed monuments of Viking Age England.
Reading list for essay question on Norse mythological material in Beowulf
Subject
Old Norse Literature
Description
Essay Title: ‘The incorporation of Norse mythological material in Beowulf is nothing more than a random assortment of half-remembered stories.’ Discuss.
St Edmund Memorial Coinage in the Ashmolean Museum
Subject
Coins - Danelaw
Description
Saint Edmund Memorial Coinage, produced in East Anglia 896-910 by the East-Anglian Vikings, and imitating coins produced during Edmund's reign. HCR7805 and HCR7803