A Wikipedia article on the god Heimdallr, covering his attestation in the Poetic and Prose Eddas and in skaldic verse, and, separately, his proposed pictorial attestations in stone. The article describes a figure carved on the Gosforth Cross, holding a horn and a sword and standing defiantly before two open mouthed beasts, as a figure that "has been often theorized as depicting Heimdall with Gjallarhorn," and separately raises a more hedged candidate, a horn and sword figure on an unnamed Isle of Man cross that "some scholars have theorized" is also Heimdall. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Reliability Tier3
A crowd-edited tertiary reference on the god himself, written and maintained separately from the atlas's Gosforth Cross source, independently corroborating the same carved figure as a proposed depiction of Heimdall while framing the reading as a scholarly theory rather than a certainty. Citation
PublisherWikipedia
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heimdallr
Source Typeencyclopedia
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This source names Heimdall directly: "A Wikipedia article on the god Heimdallr, covering his attestation in the Poetic and Prose Eddas and in skaldic verse, and, separately, his proposed pictorial attestations in stone."
Source Heimdallr (Wikipedia)
This source names Heimdall directly: "A Wikipedia article on the god Heimdallr, covering his attestation in the Poetic and Prose Eddas and in skaldic verse, and, separately, his proposed pictorial attestations in stone."
Source Heimdallr (Wikipedia)
Claims Backed By This Source (8 claims)
This source backs 8 claims across the atlas. As facts: 5 well-attested. As cited relationships: 3 holds.
Disposition By Topic
- Sources, 7 claims: 5 well-attested, 2 holds.
- Sacred Art & Iconography, 1 claims: 1 holds.
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