Kategori: Germany

  • Advent calendar Flap 5, the Hedeby Mask

    Advent calendar Flap 5, the Hedeby Mask

    Flap 5 Behind flap 5 in the Advent calendar we find the Hedeby Mask. This mask was discovered during excavations at the Viking Age trading town of Hedeby/Haithabu. According to archaeologists, it had been reused as caulking in the hull of a Viking ship. The mask is felted from wool and shaped like an animal.…

  • Advent calendar Flap 3, the Osterby Man

    Advent calendar Flap 3, the Osterby Man

    Flap 3 Behind the third flap of this year’s Advent calendar is the skull of the Osterby Man. The skull was discovered in 1946 during peat cutting in Osterby, Schleswig-Holstein in Germany. It belonged to a man aged between 50 and 60. An injury indicates that he had been struck on the head before being…