The Viking age according to the artist Mårten Eskil Winge!
19th century shaped the view on the Viking age
Winge was a 19th century artist and he made many paintings of Nordic and Viking history. There are Thor with the hammer and Kraka, and Sigyn and Loke.
The one showing the battle at Fyrisvallarna in Uppsala in around 985
– when Erik the Victorious won over his nephew Styrbjörn the Strong – was supposed to have been a wall painting at the National gallery …
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