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. 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, 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."
Source Snaptun Stone (Wikipedia)
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."
Source Snaptun Stone (Wikipedia)
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."
Source Snaptun Stone (Wikipedia)
This source names Sweden directly: "from soapstone quarried in Norway or Sweden."
Source Snaptun Stone (Wikipedia)
Claims Backed By This Source (21 claims)
This source backs 21 claims across the atlas. As facts: 9 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 9 holds. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Sacred Art & Iconography, 12 claims: 4 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 5 holds, 2 general references.
- Sources, 9 claims: 5 well-attested, 4 holds.
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