Houtsnijwerk Stora Hammars Vikingsteen Middeleeuwse kleding highly decorated forms

highly decorated forms

The earliest depictions of this type of buckler appear in the early 14th-century Tower manuscript

The Knights Templar wore it to suggest piety and protect themselves from the hot sun of the Levant

These demi-gauntlets are supplied without leather inner gloves

Houtsnijwerk Stora Hammars Vikingsteen Middeleeuwse kleding highly decorated formsThis handmade wood carving is a replica of stone I by Stora Hammars. These 4 stones are located on the island of Gotland in Sweden and date from the 7th century. Stone I contains 6 images with mythological, religious and war scenes. From top to bottom, the scenes show the following: a woman between 2 men, a sacrificial scene (possibly a human sacrifice as a blood eagle ritual) with a Valknut over an altar, a woman standing between a Viking ship with