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Picture stone, Swedish History Museum, Stockholm, Sweden

Man with spear riding a horse, with dog or wolf, bird and woman with a drinking horn, possibly depicting a dead warrior who is welcomed to Valhalla by a Valkyrie; ritual procession of 7 figures, possibly hanged men, sacrificed to the gods, and ship with crew and checkerboard sail possibly representing journey of the dead, with border panel of knot work design, 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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Man with spear riding a horse, with dog or wolf, bird and woman with a drinking horn, possibly depicting a dead warrior who is welcomed to Valhalla by a Valkyrie; ritual procession of 7 figures, possibly hanged men, sacrificed to the gods, and ship with crew and checkerboard sail possibly representing journey of the dead, with border panel of knot work design, 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