Photo: Fornleifastofnun Íslands/The Institute of Archaeology, Iceland
A sandstone Thor’s hammer amulet has been institute at the Viking-era farmstead Bergsstaðir inwards Þjórsárdalur valley. The site was final occupied 900 years agone together with the amulet is believed to endure unopen to the same age. Only 1 Thor’s hammer has e'er been institute inwards Republic of Iceland before.
“These are all objects from the Viking age,” said Ragnheiður Gylfadóttir, an archeologist alongside Iceland’s Institute of Archaeology, speaking alongside ruv.is.
When the squad arrived at the site, she said, they speedily institute rocks that looked similar they could accept been foundations for longhouse walls. In addition, they institute remnants of human habitation, such every 2d an ash pile together with burned bones.
“We institute a so-called ‘heinarbrýni.’ It’s a type of whetstone that was unremarkably kept on the belt, used to sharpen needles, for example,” continued Gylfadóttir. “And nosotros institute a fragment from a soapstone pot.”
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