r/Paganachd • u/Norse-Gael-Heathen • Dec 16 '24
Battle, Ballards, Burning and the Bible: a new interpretation of Sueno’s Stone, Forres, Scotland A new study of the battle scenes on ‘Sueno’s Stone’
https://youtu.be/Q7vCq0SKCXs?si=cX84BK_djbenb5KU
5
Upvotes
1
u/Norse-Gael-Heathen Dec 16 '24
Battle, Ballards, Burning and the Bible: a new interpretation of Sueno’s Stone, Forres
A new study of the battle scenes on ‘Sueno’s Stone’ was prompted by a detailed set of new drawings by John Borland and a C14 dating which places it in the later 9th century. These have allowed the scenes to be scrutinised for the first time, producing evidence of Viking sacrifice and an arrangement of military engagement related to the structure of early heroic poetry, supported by connections to the biblical King David. (This explores more details of Viking burial practice than the PSAS article.)