A Wikipedia article on the Snaptun Stone, a semi-circular soapstone hearth stone found on a beach near Snaptun, Denmark, carved around 1000 CE from soapstone quarried in Norway or Sweden. The article describes the stone's use in smithing, with holes cut to direct a bellows nozzle's flame, its display at Moesgaard Museum near Aarhus, and the identification of the carved face as Loki from its scarred lips, a detail tying the object to the tale in Skaldskaparmal in which the sons of Ivaldi sew Loki's mouth shut.
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Assessment
Reliability Tier3
A crowd-edited tertiary reference, used here for the stone's find location, material and museum, independently corroborated by a Wikimedia Commons file record captioned with the same identification and museum. Citation
PublisherWikipedia
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snaptun_Stone
Source Typeencyclopedia
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This source names Denmark directly: "stone found on a beach near Snaptun, Denmark, carved around 1000 CE from soapstone quarried in Norway or Sweden."
Loki, Deities This source names Loki directly: "identification of the carved face as Loki from its scarred lips, a detail tying the object to the tale in Skaldskaparmal in which the sons of Ivaldi sew Loki's mouth shut."
Loki, Figures This source names Loki directly: "identification of the carved face as Loki from its scarred lips, a detail tying the object to the tale in Skaldskaparmal in which the sons of Ivaldi sew Loki's mouth shut."
This source names Sweden directly: "from soapstone quarried in Norway or Sweden."
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This source backs 17 claims across the atlas. As facts: 6 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 9 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 9 claims: 5 well-attested, 4 holds.
- Sacred Art & Iconography, 8 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 5 holds, 1 general references.
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