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The Chariot of the sun was found in the Trundholm bog in Sjaeland, Denmark, and is a Fine example of Prehistoric Northern European Sculpture.

Pre Dating the Vikings, it gives interesting clues into the religious beliefs of the Early Indo-European peoples that inhabited North Eastern Europe. It appears to depict the Sun being drawn across the Sky by a horse, analogous with the Greek Horses of Apollo, and more obviously, the Chariots of the sun and moon, conrolled by the godesses Sol and Mani in later Norse Mythologies.

Interestingly, one of our ancient sources of Viking Myth and Legend, Snorri Sturllson, who wrote of Norse Poetry and Bardism in the 11th Century, claimed that he believed that the Viking gods were Deified Trojan Kings, further linking the Norse gods with Helenic or Greek Mythology.

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