The Water Dragon and the Snake Witch: Two Vendel Period Picture Stones from Gotland, Sweden
The style and iconography of two wellknown picture stones are reanalysed. The Hablingbo Havor II pic ture stone shows a motif that occurs frequently in Got landic art from the Vendel Period onwards: the“Water Dragon”. It is suggested that this relates to an ideo logical connection between the...
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Svenska Arkeologiska Samfundet
2014-12-01
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| Series: | Current Swedish Archaeology |
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| Online Access: | https://193.10.12.85:443/csa/article/view/214 |