Miniature Shields in the Viking Age: A Reassessment
Leszek Gardeła|Kerstin Odebäck
Miniature shields are some of the most intriguing metal objects found across Scandinavia and wider Viking world. They mainly known from cremation inhumation graves, in which they typically accompany women, but also hoards, settlement sites, trading ports. Various scholars have usually interpreted miniature as amulets symbols protection with either pagan or Christian connotations. By (re)assessing a large corpus Denmark, Finland, Germany, Norway, Poland, Sweden, this paper seeks to nuance previous views on these provides new thoughts their different types, usage, meaning.
Viking and Medieval Scandinavia