Here, the best preserved of the gold foil figures that were recently found at the site of Aska in Sweden. All the figures show couples embracing. (Image credit: Björn Falkevik)
Posted on 03/16/2021 1:43:36 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Archaeologists in Sweden have discovered nearly two dozen gold foil figures that have engravings of couples embracing each other.
The figures, which date back about 1,300 years, were found in the remains of a great hall on a platform mound, a human-made structure, at the site of Aska in Sweden. The researchers are still trying to piece together the broken figures to uncover more about them.
"Our best estimate is that we have 22 foil figures. The exact number is not quite clear because most are fragmented, and there is some uncertainty as to which fragments go together," Martin Rundkvist, an archaeology professor at the University of Lodz in Poland, wrote in a report recently uploaded to academia.edu, a site where researchers can upload papers. The report has not been published in a peer reviewed journal...
"When found, many pieces were folded up more or less neatly," and a goldsmith named Eddie Herlin unfolded them for the archaeologists, Rundkvist wrote. An image in the report shows that one of the folded up figures has its edges folded towards the center. The task of unfolding the gold figures required the support of a specialist like Herlin who was able to unfold the figures without damaging them. After the team unfolded the pieces, it became clear that all of the gold figures had depictions of couples embracing...
While gold foil figures have been found at other sites in Sweden, there are no surviving written accounts of them, Rundkvist said... "They are commonly found in and around postholes in large feasting halls. They were probably glued to the posts supporting the roof and anchoring the king's high seat."
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Here, the best preserved of the gold foil figures that were recently found at the site of Aska in Sweden. All the figures show couples embracing. (Image credit: Björn Falkevik)
Aww, I thought this was going to be Viking PornHub for a second...
That was a pretty nice bunch of new GGG topics, a big hand for the world's archaeologists.
I’m guessing ancient porn or left over party favors from a royal wedding.
It is. The Vikings just had really poor production quality.
“Strangers In The Night,
exchanging glances.
wondering in the night,
what were the chances?”
Now, the Pompeeians ......
“Is that a Pornhub in your cloak, or...”
The one on the right looks like a bunny.
To me, it looks like a dog, with pigtails and a horn for a nose. Heh.
Swiving or leading thereto? “Swive” - act of copul****n. Middle English apparently from the Old English verb swīfan ‘move (along a course), sweep’.
“Dark Ages” is a political term. It has no context with this discovery. These are Viking pagan era finds.
They sure don’t look human, least of all Swedish.
The person on the right has an Elephant for a head and his elephant head is turned away from the person on the left.
The person on the left has a stranged shaped head too. Doesn’t seem to be a donkey. If it’s a rhino you can’t see the horn. Could be a hippo. Or a phone set from the 1970’s.
I think it’s a Dark Ages Make Sweden Great Again symbol.
Yikes, they had Furries back then.
Looks like Bacchus and his mother after he got her out hell and nailed her of course. This is Babylonian Paganism at its finest that spread all over the world in similar forms, from Mexico to China.
That’s called Pjornhub.
I wonder, depictionsof ‘marriage’ by the king?
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