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Knut Rom unearthed the fabulous Oseberg Ship, a Longboat the Vikings used as a burial chamber for an ancient queen.
So, imagine the 3-D vision you need to carve this, the steady hand, the computer brain. So, if anyone ever says to you, “the Vikings were barbarous”, grab them by the ear and tug them here to Oslo.
The Sutton Hoo Treasure was unearthed in East Anglia before World War II. Shaun Greenhalgh provides an insight into how these treasures might have been made.
The delights of Shaun’s Anglo-Saxon disc brooch will have to wait. First, we need to cross the Channel and search out those powerful Dark Age creatives, the Carolingians – rulers of the Franks.
The Jelling Stone is the largest and most famous of the Scandinavian Rune Stones. It weighs over 10 tonnes. It is 2½m tall and has fascinating imagery.
It is carved on all three sides and on this side is an image of a giant snake attacking a stylised lion.
Jesus had sacrificed his life for them so, the monks of Lindisfarne would sacrifice their comforts.
This is Lindisfarne, high up on the north coast of Britain. Holy Island they call it. This monastery you see there was founded early in the seventh century by an Irish monk called Aidan.
The Lindisfarne Gospels is considered to be a great calligraphic masterpiece of exceptional vitality.
In the Lindisfarne Gospels, Christian energy and Celtic inventiveness. Pictures and letters have come together in cosmic adulation of the word.
Shaun Greenhalgh recreates a beautiful Cloisonné enamel, Anglo-Saxon Disc Brooch.
Shaun Greenhalgh “The Cloisonné enamel technique is a very old technique, practised by the Romans, and the Celts even, before them. It’s just powdered glass, ground up, and mixed in with water and just fired in the kiln.
The Celtic Interlacing iconography is thought to mimic the interrelationships in the cosmos. A fine example of this Celtic Art is seen on the Lonan Cross.
A lot of people have written a lot of books on the subject of Celtic interlacing – what it means, why it was used. It’s so beautiful to look at, but also, so intrinsically mysterious.
Charlemagne, Charles the Great, was king of the Carolingian dynasty and introduced Christianity in the most brutal fashion.
Charlemagne was determined to expand the Frankish Empire. After all, it was God’s chosen Empire, and the Carolingians were God’s chosen leaders.
All Islamic mosques are modelled on the courtyard of the Prophet’s own house in Medina.
The shelters in his courtyard were also used as somewhere to meet and discuss community affairs. And that marvellous communal atmosphere of a space with many purposes is something else that survives to this day in the Islamic mosque.
Quartz is a very common mineral, but in the hands of the Islamic Rock Crystal Carvers it is transformed into something magical.
The shimmering image carved into these gorgeous crystal ewers would transport the drinker to Paradise. Hunting scenes, flowers, beautiful birds, so crystal clear that none could resist them.
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