Home Objects Svenska Svenska
Home Boundless meetings Family and hierarchy Midgard 28: Meaningful drinking 29: Til – a Viking Age estate 30: Town-like trading centres emerged 31: Skiing Finns – the northern people 32: Ceramics from all around the world 33: Runes in everyday life 34: Surviving the winter 35: Dirty creatures or vain Norse people? 36: No moderation when dressing up 37: Only fragments and threads remain 38: House and home under lock and key 39: A wooden spoon for the soup 40: The longhouse – symbol of ownership 41: Dark – but warm and colourful 42: Demand for timber emptied the landscape 43: Food for the poor and the rich 44: Music for work, everyday life and feasts 45: Sacrifices – Viking home insurance Belief and traditions The living and the dead Divine craftwork Trading and raiding Waterways Town-like centres Christian monuments

Listen

Earspoon

Gilded silver ear spoon. The handle is decorated with a female figure on one side and animal ornamentation on the other. Hanging attachment in the shape of a closed, striated silver ring. The woman has her hair up in a pretzel knot at her neck and is holding out a drinking horn. Her clothing has wings and resembles a bird. The figure probably represents one of the mythological goddesses who could disguise themselves as a bird. Grave find, Birka, Bj 507, Adelsö Parish, Uppland.

Download image

Object number: 456867_HST

<   11 of 14  >