Gelmir

Home of Viking Art and History

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Sleipnir

Óðinn’s horse, Sleipnir, is grey and eight-legged, and the old poems call him the best of horses. He was born to Loki in the shape of a mare, and he is the horse that carries riders down into Hel and brings them back out again.

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The Staves, Redrawn from the Source

Ready to drop into Illustrator, Procreate, Photoshop, or straight onto skin.

Thirty staves redrawn by hand from the Huld manuscript, matched to Kvasrista’s visual language, each with its real manuscript instruction, transcribed and translated.

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Explore the Viking Art Styles

Everything you need to know about Viking art, broken down into its defining characteristics and illustrated with examples from real artifacts.

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Browse the Artefacts

The Gelmir Compendium features a growing reference of artifacts, motifs, and iconography spanning the Viking Age (c. 800–1100 CE) and the Proto-Viking Age (c. 400–800 CE).