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The Sword Graysteel ("Grásíða") by C.E. St. John-Mildmay 1866

Thorkel at Auda and Asgerda's Bower by C.E. St. John-Mildmay 1866

The Forging of the Spear by C.E. St. John-Mildmay 1866

They played knattleikur at Seftjorn pond - Unknown date/artist

Thorgrim's Slaying by C.E. St. John-Mildmay 1866

Gisli slips through Bork's fingers by C.E. St. John-Mildmay 1866

The Dream Wife by C.E. St. John-Mildmay 1866

Gisli, Auda, and Gudrida by C.E. St. John-Mildmay 1866

Gisli in Sæból by C.E. St. John-Mildmay 1866

Bork grabbed hold of Thordis and wretched the sword away from her - Unknown date/artist

Gunnlaugr Ormstunga before Earl Erik Haakonsson by Andreas Bloch 1898

Leif Erikson discovers America by Hans Dahl 1849-1937

Hervör wakes her father Angantýr's ghost to demand the cursed sword Tyrfing by Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein-Stub (1783–1816)

Hervor, daughter of Heidrek, dying at the Battle of the Goths and Huns by Peter Nicolai Arbo (1831–1892)

Freydís Eiríksdóttir by Elisabeth Alba 2016

Freydís Eiríksdóttir in Vinland - Unknown Date

Easter/Ostara by Johannes Gehrts 1884/1901

Sigrid the Haughty - Unknown Date/Artist

Erik the Red from Arngrímur Jónsson's Gronlandia (Greenland) 1688

Eiríksstaðir, imagined homestead of Erik the Red & Leif Erikson

The Landing of the Vikings by Arthur C. Michael, 1917

Eric Haraldsson, nicknamed Eric Bloodaxe - Unknown Date

Harald Fairhair, in an illustration from the Flateyjarbók 14th C. CE

Gyda Eiriksdatter by Christian Krohg 1899

Harald Bluetooth being baptized by Bishop Poppo the missionary 1200 CE

Thyra Danebod - Unknown Date

Thyra Danebod - Unknown date

Thyra Danebod by Herman Wilhelm Bissen 1853

Runic stone for Thyra 10th C. CE