Today I have even more pictures for you from the Vikings in BC exhibit, focused on brooches from a few different displays.
This is another image-heavy post, so I’m separating brooch-related posts into a few posts.
Today I have even more pictures for you from the Vikings in BC exhibit, focused on brooches from a few different displays.
This is another image-heavy post, so I’m separating brooch-related posts into a few posts.
In a previous post I shared some brooches from the Vikings in BC exhibit. Today I have some more for you. Since I have a LOT of brooch photos, I’m going to be breaking this up over a few days, to limit the number of photos in one post. You can click the Vikings In BC tag to see all of the posts from this exhibit. Continue reading
While I’m busy working on a bunch of different things, I thought I’d take a break from those posts (while waiting to finish them.. ahem) to share some of the remaining photos from the Vikings In BC display from Victoria, BC this past summer.
This was a really cool display – all about moulded items.
So I took a bit of a detour and showed you some photos from the Vikings exhibit in BC, (click the tag to read more) but I still have so much to share from Iceland.. so back to Iceland we will go!
The Iceland National Museum had a number of “tortoise” brooches on display from a number of different discoveries. I’ve decided to show them all off on one page, although they all might be from different ages.
Please note, this is a VERY image-heavy post.
After seeing the large tortoise (oval/ turtle) brooches from Viking Age finds, I was struck how distinctly different this brooch was, from the Saga Museum in Iceland. The character portrayed is supposed to be a Celtic woman taken as a slave/wife by a Nordic Viking Age man, and taken to Iceland. The brooch is much, much smaller than the other brooches displayed (either the originals as seen elsewhere, or the reproductions in the Saga Museum) an has a pattern, size, and shape that reminded me of a cockroach! (Hence, I’m calling it a “roach brooch” even if that’s not the most flattering name! Continue reading