Merovingian Anglo Saxons And Vikings

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Medieval art were associated with Merovingian, Anglo Saxons and, Vikings. Their airs were applied on many different types of media, such as wood, stone and even metal. One example, Animal-head post, from the Viking ship burial, Oseberg, Norway, ca. 825. It was creatred by Vikings, they were master wood carvers. Viking were trader and thief, they had fast ships and exceed at war. Many of art related to them are from their ships. Merovingian fibulae can be characteristic as the most prestige adornments of the early medieval. For example, “Pair of Merovingian looped fibulae” these jeweled were status symbols. These fibulae were often made from bronze, silvers or golds. Could the different animals design and what it made for classify as what rank

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