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Viking picture stone, Gotland Museum, Visby, Gotland, Sweden

Viking picture stone with panelled scenes, including here, Icelandic saga with Gunnar thrown into a snake pit and left to die, and woman who tries to rescue him also killed, detail, 8th - 9th century, possibly a memorial to a man who has died in battle, in the Gotland Museum, founded 1875 by the Friends of Gotland's Antiquity Society, in Visby, on the island of Gotland, Sweden. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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Viking picture stone with panelled scenes, including here, Icelandic saga with Gunnar thrown into a snake pit and left to die, and woman who tries to rescue him also killed, detail, 8th - 9th century, possibly a memorial to a man who has died in battle, in the Gotland Museum, founded 1875 by the Friends of Gotland's Antiquity Society, in Visby, on the island of Gotland, Sweden. Picture by Manuel Cohen