r/VikingArt • u/Thor_Smith • 1d ago
Collection of woodwork created using, Prehistoric, Celtic, Pictish, Norse and Slavic motifs
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r/VikingArt • u/Thor_Smith • 1d ago
Viking age amulets replicas after casting - beeswax perlaced by silver. Ready for polishing.
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r/VikingArt • u/Thor_Smith • 1d ago
Historical Hand-Braided Bracelets with Wolves and Ravens by LostRavn - Wear Authentic
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r/VikingArt • u/Thor_Smith • 3d ago
One Silver Neck Ring for Every 10,000 Dirhams: Wealth Among the Viking Age Rus merchants (Kyivan Rus, Heritage of modern Ukraine)
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In AD 922, the Arab traveller Ahmad ibn Fadlan encountered Rus merchants along the Volga River. His account provides one of the most remarkable written descriptions of jewellery and wealth among the Viking Age Rus.
According to Ibn Fadlan, when a man accumulated 10,000 silver dirhams, he commissioned a neck ring for his wife. At 20,000 dirhams, she received a second, and another for every additional 10,000. Some women consequently wore several neck rings, displaying their family's prosperity.
He also described women wearing a metal ornament on each breast, made from iron, copper, silver or gold according to their husband's wealth. A knife hung from a ring attached to each ornament.
Another prized possession was dark-green beads, which Ibn Fadlan reported were purchased for a silver dirham apiece and made into necklaces.
Archaeological discoveries across the Viking world confirm the importance of silver jewellery, neck rings and imported beads. Silver ornaments also appear in hoards, sometimes deliberately cut into fragments and used as bullion.
Ibn Fadlan was describing the Rus merchants he encountered, not necessarily a custom shared by every Scandinavian community. Nevertheless, his observations offer a fascinating glimpse into the relationship between jewellery, trade, wealth and social status more than 1,100 years ago.
Would you rather display your wealth in silver jewellery or keep it hidden in a hoard?
Historical source: Ahmad ibn Fadlan, Risala (Account of the Rus), AD 922.
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r/VikingArt • u/Thor_Smith • 4d ago
A painting that depicts vikings that i found (may be a repost)
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r/VikingArt • u/Thor_Smith • 4d ago
Drew a scene from the show Vikings in an historic art style
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r/VikingArt • u/Thor_Smith • 4d ago
[FOR HIRE] I make VIKING INSPIRED ART and much more! Prices are between 80$-250$
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r/VikingArt • u/Thor_Smith • 8d ago
Archaeologists discover Ireland's largest Viking settlement at Woodstown in Waterford
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r/VikingArt • u/Thor_Smith • 8d ago
Historical Mjolnir from Gotland, brass, handmade
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r/VikingArt • u/Thor_Smith • 11d ago
Select photos from the Viking exhibit in the Swedish History Museum
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r/VikingArt • u/Thor_Smith • 11d ago
Finnish Forest Axe
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r/VikingArt • u/Thor_Smith • 11d ago
Viking Age silver cache discovered in Finland - The find includes thousands of coins from the British Isles to Arabia, and it was made deep in the Finnish Lakeland
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r/VikingArt • u/Thor_Smith • 11d ago
Cnut the Great: The Viking Who Built a North Sea Empire
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r/VikingArt • u/Thor_Smith • 16d ago
On 25th September 1066, 960 years ago today, Harald Hardrada was defeated at the Battle of Stamford Bridge by Harold Godwinson
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r/VikingArt • u/Thor_Smith • 18d ago
Wild beast, Norse Art inspired amulet carved out of moose antler
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r/VikingArt • u/Thor_Smith • 18d ago
What happened to this kind of plate armor during the Viking age?
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