The Torslunda plates are four cast bronze dies found in the Torslunda parish on the Swedish island Öland.[2] They display figures in relief,[3] representing what are presumed to be traditional scenes from Germanic mythology.[4] The plates are moulds designed for production rather than display; by placing thin sheets of foil against the scenes and hammering or otherwise applying pressure from the back, identical images could be quickly mass-produced.[2] The resulting pressblech foils would be used to decorate rich helmets of the sort found at Vendel, Valsgärde, and Sutton Hoo. Two of the plates may have been made as casts of existing pressblech foils.
The Torslundaplates are four cast bronze dies found in the Torslunda parish on the Swedish island Öland. They display figures in relief, representing...
men wearing horned helmets, similar to a figure seen on one of the Torslundaplates from Sweden. Also, a pendant from Ekhammar in Uppland, features the...
the Torslundaplates, were found by Erik Gustaf Pettersson and Anders Petter Nilsson in a cairn on the lands of the farm No 5 Björnhovda in Torslunda parish...
The third similar design is one of the four Torslundaplates, discovered in Öland, Sweden, in 1870. This plate, which is complete and depicts a figure with...
object, such as a helmet. Such is the case on one of the contemporary Torslundaplates found in Sweden, where boar-crested helmets are depicted similarly...
A warrior with shaggy breeches, killing a beast, on one of the Torslundaplates. The man has been identified with Ragnar Lodbrok in an early Swedish version...
Other notable examples of the motif in Germanic art include one of the Torslundaplates, and helmets from Vendel and Valsgärde. In the art of Mesopotamia the...
appease the gods. Axboe has also published on the manufacture of the Torslundaplates and the making of Migration Period chip-carving ornament. In 2007 he...
also "Odin's helpers in his veterinary function." Vendel Period helmet plates (from the 6th or 7th century) found in a grave in Sweden depict a helmeted...
century Torslundaplates. It has been suggested that the helmets depicted on these plates are of an older style than the helmets that the plates are decorating...
The Torslundaplates (c. 600). The plate on the lower left may depict a warrior in a wolf mask performing a dance, perhaps a form of initiation rite....
demonstrated through laser scanning that a dancing warrior on one of the Torslundaplates, cast bronze dies used to make helmet decorations, had had its eye...
du Renard (fox hole) are excavated by Lepic and De Lubac. Spring – Torslundaplates discovered in Öland. First discoveries of the Polada culture. National...
turn-of-the-millennium Gundestrup cauldron, discovered in Denmark, and on a Torslundaplate from Sweden, made some 500 years later. Though the Romans also included...
turn-of-the-millennium Gundestrup cauldron, discovered in Denmark, and on a Torslundaplate from Sweden, made 500 years later. The Romans also included the boar...
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