Raven banner
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raven-banner-185-2596255
title:
Raven banner
text:
The raven banner was a flag, possibly totemic in nature, flown by various Viking chieftains and other Scandinavian rulers during the 9th, 10th and 11th centuries. Period description simply describes it as a war banner with a raven mark on it, although no complete visual description or depiction of the raven banner is known from the time. Norse and European period artwork, however, depicts war banners as roughly triangular, with a rounded outside edge on which there hung a series of tabs or tasse
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Flag used by various Scandinavian rulers during the Viking age
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raven_banner
date created:
2007-01-04T22:56:39Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T15:19:22Z
main entity:
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image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/Raven_Banner.svg","width":1463,"height":1250}
fields total:
13
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