Viking Art Analysis

I really enjoyed watching the videos on the Viking Age. I think it was a great idea to give some background information about the Vikings along with their artwork, so that the Vikings artwork would be more tangible for everyone watching it.
From the videos we can see that not only the Vikings closeness to the nature have effected their worldview, but also it had inspired their artworks and that they had used their natural knowledge to make their art.
Moreover, as it was mentioned in the video it is fascinating to see that such hard people had such a great taste in art and crafting. Although the Vikings did not have many texts written down, but they have used paintings and carving technics to pass out their history to the next generations.
It was fascinating to see that not only a wooden object such as the
It was strange to know that after the Viking’s settled in England and adopted Christianity, their artworks where influenced by Anglo-Saxon’s art. The stone cross, which may have been ordered by a local king of Vikings who had converted to Christianity, was the most fascinating artwork to me. The way they used the carving art to compare and contrast the new beliefs and old by putting the world ending in Christian and the Viking custom appears to me to be a remarkable idea. This was a brilliant idea for a local king to order this piece of art for informing the next generations about their ancestors’ beliefs.
Hogback stones, is another example regarding to the changes the Vikings had made not only to their beliefs and burial customs but also to their artworks. The Vikings had integrated the England’s saints’ thumbs idea and created their own piece of art for the gravestones. The grave monuments looked like a Viking home as if they wanted the dead person to live in his home forever and they have ornamented it with carvings of old traditions and new beliefs on