Art Styles
Number of styles Swedish archaeologist Bernhard Salin divided the pre-Viking Age Germanic art into
What is 3; style I, style II, & style III
The general number of different art styles corresponding with different eras in the Viking age
What is 6; Oseberg styles, Borre style, Jelling style, Mammen style, Ringerike style, and Urnes style
The use/purpose of Viking art (decoration or function?)
What is decorated functional items
Vikings preferred media for carved/engraved art
What is wood, stone, metal, bone and amber?
What is the Mammen Style (c. 960s–1000/1025 C.E.)?
Viking Art style associated with malleability; fluid, interlacing beast with ribbon like body with beaded/dotted pattern
What is the Jelling/Jellinge Style (c. 900–975 C.E.)?
The stories some pictorial Viking art pieces tell
What are stories about/from Norse Mythology/religion (scenes as a Valkyrie welcoming a warrior into Valhalla or Sigurd the Dragonslayer's story)
Viking's preferred media for tapestries/pictorial art
What is cloth or leather?
Viking Art style, also known as "runestone style", generally associated with elegance, interwoven/looped snakes and tendrils, and was very popular in Ireland
What is the Urnes Style (c. 1050–1125 C.E.)?
The first identified Viking art style, associated with long animal bodies, small heads with bulging eyes, and "gripping beasts" with muscular bodies and claws
What is the Oseberg style (c. 775/800–875 C.E.)?
The kind of Viking art that has been preserved the best/longest; The bulk of evidence of Viking art we have/can study
What is decorated jewelry and other metal goods?
Viking Art style associated with Ribbon plait (a symmetrical interlaced pattern), and single gripping beast with a triangle head, and was found all throughout Scandinavia
What is the Borre style (c. 850–975 C.E.)?
Viking Art style associated with large animals in dynamic poses, movement and power, and was popular in England and Ireland.
What is the Ringerike Style (c. 990–1050 C.E.)?
Two popular techniques used in Viking art
What is filigree and granulation?