Cantor: "The ideas of the Middle Ages articulated by the master medievalists vary substantially one from another. The libretto and the score they are working from — the data of historical fact — are the same. The truth, therefore, is ultimately not in the textual details but in the interpretations.”

The Someșeni treasure (Cluj county, Romania) was laid in the grave of a likely 5th-century Christian Germanic high-status woman (possibly Gepid) and comprises items such as beads, buckles, rings or necklace fragments, many decorated with almandines.

source: Oslo Museum of Cultural History

On the obverse, you can see the king’s portrait with a conical battle helmet. The inscription reads ONLAF R+ NORMANORV—Olaf, King of the Northmen. The design was modelled on Anglo-Saxon pennies struck under Knud the Great around 1024–1030.

Turns out one of the coins from the Mørstad hoard, the largest Viking treasure ever found in Norway, is an extremely rare Olaf Haraldsson (the Saint) mint.

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The design was modelled on Anglo-Saxon pennies struck under Knud the Great around 1024–1030. In front of the portrait is a cross on three steps (Golgotha cross), inspired by Byzantine coinage, while the reverse depicts a double cross reading +CE DVX DOMINNVS MEI — My leader, my lord.

One of the coins from the Mørstad hoard, the largest Viking treasure ever found in Norway, is an extremely rare Olaf Haraldsson (the Saint) mint. On the obverse, you can see the king’s portrait with a conical battle helmet. The inscription reads ONLAF R+ NORMANORV — Olaf, King of the Northmen.