Stamp FO 177 from the Faroe Islands, featuring a toy horse from the Viking Age
Stamps
One of a pair of Faroese stamps released in 1989 and designed by Bárður Jákupsson, featuring a Viking Age toy horse found in at the Viking farm at Kvívík, Leirvík and now on display at The National Museum of the Faroe Islands. <span>Listed as Stamp #FO 177</span><span>.</span>For the original artefact this stamp is based on, see <a href="http://www.worldtreeproject.org/document/1161" target="_blank">here</a>
Bárður Jákupsson / Postverk Føroya - Philatelic Office
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/43/Faroe_stamp_177_viking_toys_-_carved_horse.jpg
Wikimedia Commons
1989
Administrator
Public Domain
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Faroe_stamp_177_viking_toys_-_carved_horse.jpg
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Faroese
Still Image
FO 177
Faroe Islands
Modern
Gilt bronze horse from a wind vane of a ship in Nationalmuseet, Danmark
Artefact
An animal figurine found in Lolland, originally from a wind-vane (or prow ornament) on a ship. Dating to c. 1000 AD. For a higher-resolution image see <a href="http://samlinger.natmus.dk/DMR/167919">http://samlinger.natmus.dk/DMR/167919</a>
Lennart Larsen/ Nationalmuseet
http://samlinger.natmus.dk/DMR/167919
Nationalmuseet / The National Museum of Denmark
Unknown
Admin
CC-BY-SA
http://samlinger.natmus.dk/
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Still Image
http://samlinger.natmus.dk/DMR/167919
D12128
Danmark, Denmark, Viking Age
The Pitney Brooch
Jewellery - Brooches
From British Museum Website:
"Dished gilt copper-alloy disc brooch, Urnes style. Within a scalloped border, the convex surface of the circular brooch bears an openwork design of a coiled, ribbon animal in combat with a snake. The head has a pronounced lentoid eye, and an S-shaped lappet on the upper jaw; a second lappet projects from the neck. The creature bites its own body, which is composed of a plain and a beaded band, forming a heart-shaped loop. It has spiral hips; the sharply angled foreleg terminates in a three-toed foot and the hind-leg divides into two tendrils, the longer one interlacing with the body to terminate in a foliate trefoil. A snake's head with two prominent eyes, seen from above, bites the animal's neck. Its thin body, with one tendril offshoot, interlaces with that of the animal, and ends in two scrolled tendrils. The reverse of the brooch is also gilded, with the remains of the hinge and catch-plate for the pin, which is now lost."
http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=63793&partId=1
The British Museum
2016
Admin
© The Trustees of the British Museum. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
http://www.britishmuseum.org/
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1979,1101.1
Viking Age
England
Pitney Spænde Brooch Replica in Kalundborg Museum
Jewellery - modern
Based on the Late Viking Age Urnes-Style Pitney Brooch (in the British Museum).
If you know the producer of this item, please let us know!
Kalundborg Museum
World-Tree Project
2016
Tbirkett
Photo credits: TBirkett
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Danish
Still Image
Modern, Denmark, Danmark
Late Viking-Age Brooch in the Ashmolean Museum
Brooches
Fire steel, copper alloy and iron. 1050-1150. Gotland, Sweden. AN1909.97.
Anon
The Ashmolean Museum
The World-Tree Project
2016
Administrator
(c) University of Oxford - Ashmolean Museum
<a href="http://www.ashmolean.org/" target="_blank">http://www.ashmolean.org/</a>
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Still Image
AN1909.97
Sweden
Gotland
Late Viking-Age
Logo of VikingGenetics, which produces the Cattle breeds VikingRed, VikingHolstein and VikingJersey.
Branding
VikingGenetics owned by VikingDanmark: coop owned by cattle breeders in Denmark, Sweden & Finland. 30.000 member farmers. Breeds: VikingRed. VikingHolstein. VikingJersey.
From the official website:“VikingGenetics is among the world’s largest and leading breeding company owned by farmers. VikingGenetics invests a large amount of money in research every year and uses the latest technologies, e.g. genomic selection and semen sexing.”
VikingGenetics, owned by VikingDanmark.
http://www.vikinggenetics.com/
VikingGenetics
Don't know when company/coop founded. Company came to my attention September 2016 when someone liked the website on social media.
Ciara Ní Riain
© VikingGenetics.
Website
English.
Hyperlink
http://www.vikinggenetics.com/
Modern
Denmark
Viking Horses (Icelandic Company)
Branding
This company offers horse riding tours in the Reykjavik area, and draws on the Viking origin of Iceland's distinctive breed of horses in their branding and logo, which features Sleipnir (Odin's eight-legged horse).
Viking Horses
http://vikinghorses.is/
Viking Horses
2016
Alison Killilea
© 2014 Viking Horses. All rights reserved
http://vikinghorses.is/
website
English
Modern Icelandic
hyperlink
http://vikinghorses.is/
Iceland
Modern
Medieval Animal Data-Network
Research Project
The international Medieval Animal Data-Network (MAD) was founded in 2005 at the Department of Medieval Studies at Central European University (Budapest) as an attempt to bring together multi-stranded intellectual thought concerning human-animal relationships in the European Middle Ages. It is intended to explore the exploitation of animals by documenting and analyzing archaeozoological, textual and visual data.
It leaves the door wide open for study of ambiguities in the cultural attitudes towards those same flesh and blood beasts.
MAD not only impacts life in the medieval past but has repercussions for the way people of today may view and understand the world around them.
MAD strengthens consciousness of the complex interplay between culture and nature. MAD accumulates a large body of data. Analyses of these data reveal local, regional, and Europe-wide patterns which aid understanding of long-term environmental and social processes, representing a vital part of the cultural heritage of Europe.
Medieval Animal Data-Network
Medieval Animal Data-Network
Medieval Animal Data-Network
11/08/2016
Administrator
Medieval Animal Data-Network
https://www.facebook.com/Medieval-Animal-Data-Network-490275581032323/home
http://www.imareal.sbg.ac.at/animalwiki2/index.php/Main_Page
Website
English
Website
http://www.imareal.sbg.ac.at/mad/index.html
Modern, Medieval
Submarines Named Munin and Hugin
Submarines
Two autonomous submarines produced by Kongsberg Maritime are named Hugin ('thought') and Munin ('mind') after Odin's ravens, which brought him information.
Kongsberg Maritime
https://www.km.kongsberg.com/ks/web/nokbg0240.nsf/AllWeb/48D837005CB784DFC1257C970041051F?OpenDocument
2016
Chris Cook
(c) Kongsberg Maritime
https://www.km.kongsberg.com/ks/web/nokbg0240.nsf/AllWeb/48D837005CB784DFC1257C970041051F?OpenDocument
website
English
Hyperlink
https://www.km.kongsberg.com/ks/web/nokbg0240.nsf/AllWeb/48D837005CB784DFC1257C970041051F?OpenDocument
Modern
Norway
Pre-Viking Dragon Head Stem Post in the Limburgs Museum
Artefact - Pre-Viking
This distinctive dragon-head stem post probably came from a ship, and was recovered from the River Scheldt in the Netherlands. It has been carbon-dated to the Migration Period and demonstrates that elaborate carved figure-heads pre-dated the Vikings. It was bought by the British Museum, but was photographed in a temporary exhibition on Dragons at the Limburgs Museum in the Netherlands. Original c. 57 inches. Source, Gwyn Jones, A History of the Vikings, 2nd edn (Oxford, 1984), p. vii.
Tamara Bakx
<a href="http://www.limburgsmuseum.nl/en/" target="_blank">The Limburgs Museum</a>
The World-Tree Project
2016
Tamar Bakx
Image (c) Tamara Bakx
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Still Image
Netherlands
Pre-Viking
Sixth-century buckle plate in the Historisk museum, Oslo
Artefact
Buckle plate from Åker, Vang in Hedemark dating to around the year 600. On display in the Historisk museum, Oslo
Gerard (Panda) Terry
<a href="http://www.khm.uio.no/besok-oss/historisk-museum/" target="_blank">Historisk museum</a>
Gerard (Panda) Terry
2013
Gerard (Panda) Terry
(c) Gerard (Panda) Terry. Public domain.
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Still Image
Norway
Pre-Viking Age
Sixth-century buckle plate in the Historisk museum, Oslo
Artefact
Buckle plate from Åker, Vang in Hedemark dating to around the year 600. On display in the Historisk museum, Oslo
Gerard (Panda) Terry
<a href="http://www.khm.uio.no/besok-oss/historisk-museum/" target="_blank">Historisk museum</a>
Gerard (Panda) Terry
2013
Gerard (Panda) Terry
(c) Gerard (Panda) Terry. Public domain.
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Still Image
Norway
Pre-Viking Age