Ivory Vikings: The Mystery of the Most Famous Chessmen in the World and the Woman Who Made Them
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In the early 1800s, on a Hebridean beach in Scotland, the sea
exposed an ancient treasure cache: 93 chessmen carved from walrus
ivory. Norse netsuke, each face individual, each full of quirks,
the Lewis Chessmen are probably the most famous chess pieces in the
world. Harry played Wizard's Chess with them in Harry Potter and
the Sorcerer's Stone. Housed at the British Museum, they are among
its most visited and beloved objects.Questions abounded: Who carved
them? Where? Ivory Vikings by Nancy Marie Brown explores these
mysteries by connecting medieval Icelandic sagas with modern
archaeology, art history, forensics, and the history of board
games. In the process, Ivory Vikings presents a vivid history of
the 400 years when the Vikings ruled the North Atlantic, and the
sea-road connected countries and islands we think of as far apart
and culturally distinct: Norway and Scotland, Ireland and Iceland,
and Greenland and North America. The story of the Lewis chessmen
explains the economic lure behind the Viking voyages to the west in
the 800s and 900s. And finally, it brings from the shadows an
extraordinarily talented woman artist of the twelfth century:
Margret the Adroit of Iceland.
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