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Peerie (Little) Viking Bib from a tourist shop in the Shetlands. The tourist industry draws heavily on the Viking heritage of the islands.

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This replica of the Jelling II stone is sold on the Viking Shield website here, either painted or unpainted.

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A Viking keyring from Finland

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Although Finland's Viking past is not as marked as that of the Scandinavian countries, it is still used as a selling point, as with this t-shirt featuring the Ægishjálmur or Helm of Awe/Terror. The shape of this runic stave is only known from later…

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T-Shirt from a tourist shop in Iceland featuring a Viking drinking from a horned beer-helmet. This playful t-shirt combines two of the most common perceptions of the Vikings - that they wore horned helmets and that they were heavy drinkers.

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Carved wooden bookends, modelled on viking ship prow. Seen in Ribe VikingCenter.

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Stylised viking ship magnets, on sale in a gift shop in Ribe

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Souvenir pencil with runes, seen in the gift shop of the Ribe VikingCenter

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On sale in the Føroya Fornminnisavn (National Museum of the Faroe Islands)

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Souvenir magnetic Viking warrior for children, seen in Shetland Museum and Archives. The outfit is relatively accurate, with no horned helmet in sight!

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T-Shirt from and Icelandic Tourist shop depicting three small vikings with horned helmets.

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T-Shirt from an Icelanic Tourist shop depicting a Viking ship.

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T-Shirt from a tourist shop in Iceland with a depiction of a stylised dragon head from the prow of a Viking ship. If you know the original or reconstruction which is the basis of this design, please let us know.

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T-Shirt from a tourist shop in Iceland with a depiction of a viking in relief. Unusually for the tourist industry, this Viking has no horns on their helmet.

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T-Shirt from a tourist shop in Iceland with a depiction of a runes and interlace artwork. Many souvenirs in Iceland play on the Viking heritage of the country.

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T-Shirt advertising Egils Brewery, depicting a Viking drinking from a horn with the caption 'Choice of Vikings'. Viking imagery is used widely in the Icelandic brewing industry.

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T-Shirt from a tourist shop in Iceland with a depiction of a Viking worrier.

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A magnet from a shop in Heimaey, depicting a valkyrie. Original source for this design may be the Öland Silver 'Valkyrie' Pendant http://www.worldtreeproject.org/document/482

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The Eyrarland Statue is a small bronze seated figure, which is widely understood to represent Thor with his hammer. It was found at Eyrarland near Akureyri and dates from the year 1000. It is housed in the National Museum of Iceland (Þjóðminjasafn…

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This souvenir was seen in Vigo, Galicia, with the label 'Runica Nordica'. There are several designs, which all seem to be a combination of runes with geometric shapes, and an accompanying value (such as 'love'). There is little discernible connection…
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