"A 1,000-year-old gaming piece from the Viking Age has revealed rare details about elite fashion and hairstyles. Recently highlighted by the National Museum of Denmark, the tiny figurine offers one of the clearest depictions yet of how Vikings styled their hair and beards. A small figurine, just three centimetres tall, depicts the head and torso of a Viking man with striking features, including a middle-parted hairstyle, moustache, and braided goatee."
"Viking Age art is typically characterised by animal motifs rather than human portraiture. The figurine stands out not only for its expressive human face but also for the remarkable detail of its hairstyle. "The hairstyle on the figurine, which is partially damaged, can be described as middle parting with a side wave that leaves the ear visible, while the hair has been cropped at the back," says Pentz."
A 1,000-year-old walrus-ivory figurine depicts a Viking man with a middle-parted hairstyle, moustache, braided goatee, sideburns, and cropped back hair. The tiny three-centimetre bust provides an unusually clear human portrait from the Viking Age, where art more commonly features animal motifs. The piece had been in museum collections for over 200 years but was largely unnoticed until recent attention. The figurine is now part of ongoing research into Viking Age figurines and symbolism, and the findings have been published in the journal Medieval Archaeology.
Read at Medievalists.net
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