A ‘DIVINATION STAFF’ FROM VIKING‐AGE NORWAY: AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM |
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| Authors: | Dr Sue Brunning |
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| Institution: | Curator, European Early Medieval Collections, Department of Britain, Europe and Prehistory, The British Museum, London, United Kingdom |
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| Abstract: | A long iron rod in the British Museum's Viking collection (accession number 1894,1105.5) has been reclassified by curators. Accessioned in the nineteenth century as a fishing tool and later recast as a roasting spit, it can now be added to a group of enigmatic iron rods that are widely interpreted as the special attribute of the völva, or Norse seeress. |
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