Norse art is a blanket term for the artistic styles in Scandinavia during the Germanic Iron Age, the Viking Age (known as Viking art), and sometimes even used when describing objects from the Nordic Bronze Age. Viking art has many elements in common with Celtic Art, Romanesque art and East-European (Eurasian).
Read more about Norse Art: Historical Context, The Viking Ship and Oseberg Ship Burial, Brooches and Other Objects, Technical Analysis, Conclusion, Gallery
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“Carlyle has not the simple Homeric health of Wordsworth, nor the deliberate philosophic turn of Coleridge, nor the scholastic taste of Landor, but, though sick and under restraint, the constitutional vigor of one of his old Norse heroes.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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