Buckle in gilded silver depicting Odin sacrificing his eye for wisdom at Mimer's well. When the fastening needle is opened, Odin's face dips forward and the sacrifice is made. The buckle comes from a major sacrificial site in Sweden dated to 0–500 CE. Together with other discoveries at the site, this buckle demonstrates that the Viking Age as a time period has little bearing, that Scandinavians did practice human sacrifice, and that Norse mythology is very old. @histodons@histodon#history
