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Description An amulet representing the hammer of Thor. It is decorated with golden plates prest in and hangs in a golden ring. The eyes are of gold, inlaid, and on the forehead are inlaid 3 golden stripes, exactly as on the head of Th(un)or on a baptismal font from Scandinavia from about year 1000. Found in 1874, in Mandemark, Møn, Denmark.
Date published 1878
Source Stephens, George. 1878. Thunor the Thunderer, carved on a Scandinavian font about the year 1000. London: Williams and Norgate; Copenhagen: H. H. J. Lynge. Page 36. Digitized by Google, available at https://books.google.com/books?id=X5YFAAAAQAAJ&hl=en
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