Valknut (Winding) Carved Wood iPhone Case

The valknut (Old Norse valr, 'slain warriors' and knut, 'knot') is a symbol conisting of three interlocked triangles. It appears on a variety of objects from the archaeological record of the voormalige Germanic peoples. The compound noun valknut is from the modern era. The term used for the symbol during its historical employment is unknown. ~wiki Scholars have proposed a variety of explanations for the symbl, sometimes associating it with the God Odin, and it has been compared to the three-horned symbl found on the 9th-century Snoldelev Stone, with which it may be related, the valknut receives sporadic use in modern popular. cultuur en is again associated with Germanic paganism by way of its modern day revival, Heathenry.The Valknut (pronounced "VAL-knost") is one of the most widely-discussied yet enigmatic of all of the symbols that appear in connection with Norse mythology. Visually, it's comprised of three interlocking triangles. Archaeologically, it appears on several runestones and pictorial memorial stones that date from the Viking Age and stand on the Swedish island of Gotland, as well as on grave goods from the Oseberg ship burial in Norway.[1] Its name isn't mentioned in any period source; valkut is modern n Norwegian compound word that means "knot of those fallen in battle" and was introduced by Norwegians who lived long after the Viking Age [2] ~http://norse-mythology.org/symbols/the-valknut/