The Jelling Stone's Great Beast (Mammen Style) (Illustration)

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Illustration

by Stefan Bollmann
published on 18 October 2018

The Jelling Stone's Great Beast (Mammen Style) — Image showing one face of the Viking Age Jelling stone (standing at Jelling, Denmark) dating to c. 970 CE. The stone's three sides are covered, on one side with an inscription and on its other two with large pictures of Christ and a great beast, respectively. The ornamental style of the stone is the so-called Mammen style.

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Based on Wikipedia content that has been reviewed, edited, and republished. Original image by Stefan Bollmann. Uploaded by Emma Groeneveld, published on 18 October 2018. The copyright holder has published this content under the following license: GNU Free Documentation License. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. Please note that content linked from this page may have different licensing terms.

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APA Style

Bollmann, S. (2018, October 18). The Jelling Stone's Great Beast (Mammen Style). World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.worldhistory.org/image/9348/the-jelling-stones-great-beast-mammen-style/

Chicago Style

Bollmann, Stefan. "The Jelling Stone's Great Beast (Mammen Style)." World History Encyclopedia. Last modified October 18, 2018. https://www.worldhistory.org/image/9348/the-jelling-stones-great-beast-mammen-style/.

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Bollmann, Stefan. "The Jelling Stone's Great Beast (Mammen Style)." World History Encyclopedia. World History Encyclopedia, 18 Oct 2018. Web. 21 Dec 2024.