Europeans frequently used this symbol throughout the Iron Age and the Medieval Age, with Vikings revering the symbol, as evidenced by the spinning whorl discovered last year in Norway.

Archaeologists recently unearthed a 1,000-year-old Viking treasure hoard on Baltic shores, featuring silver artifacts, Arabic coins and a cross pendant signaling early Christianization.

“The cross is just one of many unusual features in the Galloway Hoard. Late Anglo-Saxon Christian metalwork is very unusual in Viking-age silver hoards.

The Isle of Man is home to over one hundred Viking Age carved crosses, showing creatures, people, symbols and names.The transition in the Viking world of Pagan beliefs to the final embrace of ...

“The pectoral cross, with its subtle decoration of evangelist symbols and foliage, glittering gold and black inlays, and its delicately coiled chain, is an outstanding example of the Anglo-Saxon ...

Viking artifact found on Oak Island is linked to Templar Knights Meanwhile, more evidence mounted of a 13th-century collaboration between Templar Knights and Vikings to bury treasure on the island.

Sweden, for example, is home to Vikings Against Racism, a network of people attempting to rescue old Norse iconography from misuse. They regularly show up at far-right events and other demonstrations.

(RNS) — The flags emblazoned with “Jesus 2020” and the cross, the most easily recognizable symbol of Christianity, were hard to miss amid the mob of President Trump supporters who stormed ...