"Valknútr": A Viking-Age Design of Uncertain Meaning

Viking-Age artifacts and carvings feature a design with three interlocking triangles that might have been associated with Odin. But we don't know that for sure, nor do we have any reason to think that the "valknut" name was applied to it back then.

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