Norse Code

Norse Code: Skull Cups Were Horns

A Viking asks for a drinking horn. A seventeenth-century translation has other ideas.

Who ordered this tableware?

A baffled Viking follows two printed receipts, from a Latin edition in 1636 to Thomas Percy in 1763. A poetic image explains the skull-cup stereotype, while the third raven questions the guest list.

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Studio21x20 Media
SeriesNorse Code, episode 5
FormatAnimated short
Runtime53 seconds
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Norse Code

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