Valkyrie

A new study has been conducted on mysterious Viking pendants found in Denmark (by the dozens) and as far afield as Russia and England. These figurines were created in bronze, are roughly inch-long, and depict long-haired women wearing crested helmets while carrying shields and swords. The pendants have been dated back to more than a thousand years – the height of the Viking Age. The dictionary defines iconography as ‘the visual images and symbols used in a work of art or the study or interpretation of these’. “Viking-Age iconography is mostly studied through stone sculpture and carvings and through metal dress accessories, which are often poorly contextualised finds”, write Professors Pieterjan Deckers (lead author and archaeologist at the Free University