Tenth Century Collection (page 11)

Fragment of a cross depicting a Viking Warrior, Weston Church, North Yorkshire
Cross fragment from Weston Church in North Yorkshire, 10th century. The detail is of a viking warrior, reusing an earlier anglican cross

Detail of the great runestone of Harald Bluetooth, 10th century
Detail of the great runestone of Harald Bluetooth, King of Denmark, made at Jelling in Denmark. The photo is of a cast, coloured as the original was

Cross-shaft fragment showing a warrior with sword, spear, 10th century
Cross-shaft fragment showing a warrior with sword, spear, and pointed helmet. From Sockburn in county Durham, 10th century

Hoard of silver with arab coins from a Viking grave, showing trade with and travel to the middle east

Viking Thors Hammer pendant, 10th century
Thors Hammer pendant from a Viking grave in Sweden at Bland. At the Museum of National Antiquities collection in Sweden, 10th century

Massive silver Viking bracelet, 10th century
Massive silver Viking bracelet from Falster, Denmark. Now in the National Museums collection in Copenhagen, 10th century

Viking silver cup from Jelling, 10th century
Viking silver cup from Jelling, Denmark. From the National Museums collection in Copenhagen, 10th century

Detail of a Viking neck-yoke for a pair of horses, 10th century
Detail of a gilded bronze Viking neck-yoke for a pair of horses, from a Viking grave at Sollestad, funen, Denmark. From the National Museums collection in Copenhagen, 10th century

Anglo-Saxon carving of a man writing a book, 10th century
Anglo-Saxon ivory carving of a man writing a book, from the Victoria and Albert Museums collection, 10th century

Bronze Viking brooch, c. 8th-11th century
Bronze Viking brooch, from the Ashmoleons collection, c.8th-11th century

Cast silver disc-brooch, possibly from York, which imitates a coin of the Emperor Valentinian. Currently at the York Museum

Viking pewter disc-brooch, 10th century
Viking cast pewter disc-brooch from York. It is decorated in the Jellinge style with a backwards-facing quadruped whose tongue extends and interlaces with its body and rear leg

Amber Viking playing piece, 8th-11th century
Amber Viking playing piece depicting a man with a long beard from Roholte, Denmark. From the collection of the National Museum, Copenhagen, 8th-11th century

Viking walking-stick, 10th century
Viking Walking-stick of maple-wood with Ringerike -style ornament, 10th century

Viking leather boot, 10th century
Viking leather boot from the Viking town of York, 10th century

Twelfth century illustration of St Dunstan (909-988) as a scribe. He was an Archbishop of Canterbury
Illustration, painted at Canterbury, of St Dunstan (909-988) as a scribe, part of a latin commentary on the rule of St Benedict. This piece is from the British Library

Hoard of silver & Arab coins from a Viking grave, Sweden, 10th century

Silver penny of the Irish King Sigtrygg Silkbeard
Quatrefoil silver penny of Sigtrygg Silkbeard (989/995-1036) from Dublin. Silkbeard was a Hiberno-Norse King of Dublin

Detail from a neck-yoke for horses, Sollested, Funen, Denmark, 10th century

Edward the Martyr, 10th century English king, c1860. Edward (Eadward), king from 975, being offered a poisoned drink by his stepmother Aelfthryth at her home at Corfe Castle, Dorset

Coronation of Otto III, German king, c998. Otto (980-1002), wearing a crown and holding an orb and sceptre, is flanked on the left of picture by representatives of the church

Lothaire, King of France from 954, 19th century. Lothaire (941-986) shown wearing a crown and carrying an orb and sceptre

King David playing a lyre, 10th-11th century. The instrument is probably a Rebec (Rebeck), a 3-stringed instrument developed from the Arab Rabab. From a manuscript of St Martial de Limoges

Anglo-Saxon world map, 10th century. A map showing a flat Earth and the ocean that was thought to surround it. From the British Museum

Noahs Ark in the form of a Viking ship with dragon prow, 10th century. Watched over by two angels, the chosen of God are ready to survive the flood sent to punish the rest of creation

Head of a Viking warrior, c9th-11th century
Head of a Viking warrior. From the National Historical Museum, Stockholm

Bronze figure of Shiva, Tamil Nadu, India, 950. Shiva (Siva), the third member of the Hindu Trimurti, is a god with contrasting qualities of destructive and renovating power

Russians routing Bulgarians in a cavalry skirmish. Chromolithograph from a 10th century Sclavonian manuscript in the Vatican Library

Five-headed bust of Shiva, Mid 10th century
Five-headed bust of Shiva, third divinity of Hindu trinity (trimurti), Mid 10th century. Photograph

Gold dinar of the Abbasid dynasty, 10th century
Gold dinar of the Abbasid dynasty, of Caliph al-Musta sippu. It was minted at Baghdad, 10th century

Silver dirham with a horse and rider, 10th century
Silver dirham with a horse and rider, from the Abassid Dynasty, and possibly of Caliph al Muqtadir, 10th century

Fragment of an Anglo-Scandinavian cross-shaft showing a warrior, c. 10th century
Fragment of an Anglo-Scandinavian cross-shaft from Middleton Church, Yorkshire. It shows a Scandinavian warrior, laid out with weapons in a pagan viking burial, on the face of a Christian cross

Thorwalds Cross-slab, a Viking cross slab showing Ragnarok, 10th century
Viking cross, showing a scene from Ragnarok, showing Odin with raven and spear being attacked by the wolf Fenris, his nephew, 10th century

Viking bronze brooch, c. 8th-11th century
Viking bronze brooch showing two snakes, from the Ashmolean museum, c.8th-11th century

Norse dragon-prowed ship, c10th Century
Norse dragon-prowed ship. Anglo-Saxon manuscript, 10th Century. Now in the British Museum London

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