11mo ago

Viking Age stone figurine unearthed in Iceland — but no one can agree on which animal it is

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That's a manbearpig
- I'm super cereal!
  
  Ye i mean super-duper cereally: who said it wasn't the carver's intention to make it so very unclear that a child's fantasy can turn it into whatever animal it wants. It's a multifunctional children's toy
Hasn't anyone on that excavation team ever played Valheim? This is clearly a boar.
It's a boar to me ¯(ツ)/¯
- +1 vote for boar 🐗
I'd like to imagine no one could guess what it was back then too and maybe bumming out the carver lol
- Sven: Man, Olaf, that’s a great cow!
  Olaf (blinking away tears): thanks. (sobbing quietly): it’s a bear.
Team Dog, especially with that tail.
- the tail is what makes me say dog too.
  otherwise boar or cow
I'm team pig. Fight me!
I'm just gonna go with it's whatever the Pictish beast was so that it's a double mystery. Maybe it was carved by a someone captured in a raid or something
Team Dog!!!!
Man's best friend, clearly
Can they clean it off a bit? It looks like one of the mud cookies my sister used to make when she was 3.
- The story has a pic of it post-cleaning
It’s clearly a chicken
its a bear.
Clearly a miniature dhorsig
"And it was a baby ox!"
It's obviously a jellyfish with a cyst.
I polled the family, the all say it's a pig. End of discussion
It’s a bear, or a pig/boar.

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