THE WORSAAE DRAWINGS

Worsaae Drawing 1

Worsaae, under the commission of Christian VIII of Denmark, spent nine months travelling around Britain and Ireland during 1846 and 1847. One of the most famous Scandinavian antiquarians of the nineteenth century, he had spent time visiting Sweden, Austria, Germany and Switzerland during the preceding years. The terms of his royal commission, as they related to his tour of Britain and Ireland, primarily focused on an investigation of the Viking-age antiquities and monuments of Scandinavian character. He published the results of his work as Minder om de Danske og Nordmændene i England, Skotland og Irland in 1851 with an English translation, entitled An Account of the Danes and Norwegians in England, Scotland, and Ireland, appearing in 1852. In this work Worsaae virtually created the concept of the "Viking Age". This work contains 12 drawings in which his found objects are grouped and identified, and known as the Worsaae Drawings. 

key to Worsaae Drawing 1

see UCC for notes on each

See Worsaae Drawings 2-12 here

other archeological drawing