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

Viking picture stone with panelled scenes, including here, longship with woollen sail, with soldier crew with both rounded and pointed helmets including the rear helmsman with storage of spears, and valknut symbol of Odin, detail, 8th - 9th century, from Smiss, Stenkyrka, 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, longship with woollen sail, with soldier crew with both rounded and pointed helmets including the rear helmsman with storage of spears, and valknut symbol of Odin, detail, 8th - 9th century, from Smiss, Stenkyrka, 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