Hand carved Viking horse horn for drinking
Usually made from cattle or goat horn and used as a drinking vessel in many cultures at different time periods, the drinking horn had great significance, especially for ceremonies. It continued in service until the early modern period, especially throughout Germanic Europe. A particularly popular drinking container during the early Middle Ages in Scandinavia, it was mentioned in both the Prose Edda and the Poetic Edda. Although horn fragments from the Viking Age are rarely recovered in archaeological excavations, the number of preserved metal horn fittings leads to the assumption that their use was much more widespread than actual horn finds indicate.
This Viking horn is handmade in horn, polished, and adorned with a carved motif of two intertwined ravens. In Norse mythology, the two ravens Hugin and Munin (or As the horn is an organic product, natural variations in color, shape, size, weight, and volume are expected.
