Picture stone, Swedish History Museum, Stockholm, Sweden

Ship with crew and checkerboard sail, possibly representing the journey of the dead, with border panel of knot work design, detail from a picture stone from a grave, c. 700-900 AD, from Bota, Garde, Gotland, in the Swedish History Museum, a history and archaeology museum founded 1866, in Stockholm, Sweden. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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Ship with crew and checkerboard sail, possibly representing the journey of the dead, with border panel of knot work design, detail from a picture stone from a grave, c. 700-900 AD, from Bota, Garde, Gotland, in the Swedish History Museum, a history and archaeology museum founded 1866, in Stockholm, Sweden. Picture by Manuel Cohen