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Rallinge Statuette (Wikipedia)

Wikipedia, read 2026-08-18

A Wikipedia article on the Rallinge statuette, a small bronze figurine found in spring 1904 by a twelve year old boy, Gustav Karlsson, in a potato field at the farm Rallinge in Lunda parish, Sodermanland, Sweden. The article gives the figure's pose, seated cross legged, clasping his beard, wearing a conical cap, ithyphallic, its dimensions at 6.9 centimetres and 141.3 grams, a dating to the late Viking Age around the year 1000, its passage from Karlsson to the collector Edvard Holmgren and then to the Swedish History Museum in Stockholm, catalogued SHM 14232, and the identification most scholars hold, that the figure represents the god Freyr, while noting the identification is not settled beyond dispute. 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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A crowd-edited tertiary reference, used here for the statuette's find circumstances, dimensions, accession number and the majority scholarly reading of the figure as Freyr, independently corroborated by the Wikimedia Commons category for the object including the museum's own digitised catalogue image.
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Wikipedia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rallinge_statuette
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encyclopedia
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Freyr, Deities

This source names Freyr directly: "that the figure represents the god Freyr, while noting the identification is not settled beyond dispute."

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Freyr, Figures

This source names Freyr directly: "that the figure represents the god Freyr, while noting the identification is not settled beyond dispute."

Source Rallinge Statuette (Wikipedia)
Sweden, Countries

This source names Sweden directly: "in Lunda parish, Sodermanland, Sweden."

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Claims Backed By This Source (19 claims)

This source backs 19 claims across the atlas. As facts: 10 well-attested. As cited relationships: 7 holds. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

Disposition By Topic

  • Sacred Art & Iconography, 11 claims: 5 well-attested, 4 holds, 2 general references.
  • Sources, 8 claims: 5 well-attested, 3 holds.
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