Picture stone, Swedish History Museum, Stockholm, Sweden

Ritual procession of 7 figures, possibly hanged men, sacrificed to the gods, 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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Ritual procession of 7 figures, possibly hanged men, sacrificed to the gods, 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