Viking Age stone figurine unearthed in Iceland — but no one can agree on which animal it is
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/vikings/viking-age-stone-figurine-unearthed-in-iceland-but-no-one-can-agree-on-which-animal-it-is
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EyIchFragDochNur@feddit.org · 45 pts · 1y
That's a manbearpig
spirinolas@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y
I'm super cereal!
EyIchFragDochNur@feddit.org · 1 pts · 1y
Ye i mean super-duper cereally: who said it wasn't the carver's intention to make it so very unclear that a child's fantasy can turn it into whatever animal it wants. It's a multifunctional children's toy
grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 1y
Hasn't anyone on that excavation team ever played Valheim? This is clearly a boar.
CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de · 22 pts · 1y
It's a boar to me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Gork@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 1y
+1 vote for boar 🐗
RandomStickman@fedia.io · 20 pts · 1y
I'd like to imagine no one could guess what it was back then too and maybe bumming out the carver lol
dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 1y
Sven: Man, Olaf, that’s a great cow!
Olaf (blinking away tears): thanks. (sobbing quietly): it’s a bear.
Stovetop@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y
shapesandstuff@feddit.org · 4 pts · 1y
the tail is what makes me say dog too.
otherwise boar or cow
Skua@kbin.earth · 7 pts · 1y
I'm just gonna go with it's whatever the Pictish beast was so that it's a double mystery. Maybe it was carved by a someone captured in a raid or something
Origen@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
I'm team pig. Fight me!
ogeist@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
Team Dog!!!!
Man's best friend, clearly
anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 1y
Can they clean it off a bit? It looks like one of the mud cookies my sister used to make when she was 3.
magnetosphere@fedia.io · 4 pts · 1y
The story has a pic of it post-cleaning
ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 1y
It’s clearly a chicken
dumbass@leminal.space · 3 pts · 1y
its a bear.
tiredofsametab@fedia.io · 3 pts · 1y
Clearly a miniature dhorsig
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
It's obviously a jellyfish with a cyst.
Cagi@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 1y
"And it was a baby ox!"
strawberry@kbin.earth · 1 pts · 1y
SquirrelX@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
I polled the family, the all say it's a pig. End of discussion
blaue_Fledermaus@mstdn.io · 1 pts · 1y
It's a quadrupedal, obviously.
kemsat@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1y
It’s a bear, or a pig/boar.