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The Vikings of Bjornstad

Historiska Museet / Museum of National Antiquities
Stockholm, Sweden - Summer, 2001
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The Stockholm museum has a large variety of Viking Age objects.  One of the most fascinating is the Mästermyr box, which held a collection of metal- and wood-working tools that demonstrate how little hand tools have changed in a thousand years.

Vendel arms, ca. 7th - 8th Century AD

Out-of-focus Vendel helmet

Some of the tools found in the Mästermyr chest

Another view of the Mästermyr artifacts

Reproduction of a Viking home interior

Carved stone

The Möjbro Runestone. An example of a bottom-to-top, right-to-left runic inscription.

The Rök Runestone. It contains the longest known stone runic inscription.

Viking era warp-weighted loom.

Wool dyed to reproduce available colors.

Kungsåra church pew, 11th or 12th Century

Carved back of the pew/bench
   

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