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A picture stone, image stone or figure stone is an ornate slab of stone, usually limestone, which was raised in Germanic Iron Age or Viking Age Scandinavia, and in the greatest number on Gotland. More
The Stora Hammars I stone.
Detail of Odin entering Valhalla riding on Sleipnir from the Tjängvide image stone.
Image stones on display in Gotland Museum . The center bottom stone is known as the Snake-witch stone, featuring a figure holding snakes in each hand.
Tjängvide image stone
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The Tjängvide image stone, listed in Rundata as Gotland Runic Inscription 110 or G 110, is a Viking Age image stone, from Tjängvide, which is about three kilometers west of Ljugarn on the Swedish isla
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…stones come from the period 500–700, and they are small stones with stylized patterns. Detail of Odin entering Valhalla riding on Sleipnir from the Tjängvide image stone. AD 700–1100 The third group was made in the period 700–1100 and they consist of tall stones with necks and tall bow-shaped profiles. Their ornamentations…
The Tjängvide image stone.