Viking Stein

This stein features a reproduction of the runes and pictographs on the famous 5th century Viking Golden Horns of Gallehus. These horns were tragically stolen by a gold thief and melted down to make coins during the 1800's, and only a reproduction remains from these sketches which is now on display at the National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark and the Moesgaard Museum, near Aarhus, Denmark. The runes read as a sentence in Proto-Norse: "ek Hlewagastiz Holtijaz horna tawidō", translating to "I Hlewagastiz Holtijaz made the horn". This inscription is among the earliest inscriptions in the Elder Futhark that record a full sentence, and the earliest preserving a line of alliterative verse. Interpretation of the pictograms is speculative but it is believed that "Cernunnos" is represented among the anthropomorphic figures.