Colored Glass Beads of the Viking Age

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Ancient glass beads from the Viking Age.

Viking Age Scandinavians traded far and wide for beads of colorful glass and semiprecious stone, and they buried them in their graves and in their hoards. These glass beads come from one of northern Europe’s richest early medieval cemeteries at Smorrenge on Bornholm. (Photo: Author. Bornholms Museum, Rønne, Denmark.)

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