Rashi: A Light After The Dark Ages

00:00:08 So far, on this artistic journey through the Dark Ages

00:03:30 of modern Europe but who made art of exquisite finesse and richness.

00:06:21 other Germanic tribes headed south

00:08:56 Professor Gabriel Gustafson of the Museum of Antiquities here in Oslo.

00:11:38 And that's biting the tail of this animal here.

00:14:16 This splendid story about Odin up in the trees

00:17:30 And in Viking art, it's often difficult to tell where the

00:20:00 Can you see it?

00:22:48 and the helmets mark him out as a mighty warrior.

00:25:13 This is probably the 10th century, it's like a late Saxon disc brooch

00:27:07 is one of the Dark Ages' defining characteristics.

00:29:22 If they didn't become Christians, they were killed.

00:31:41 and see how they have these alternating

00:34:21 The third type of Christians found in Anglo-Saxon Britain

00:36:31 that have been in existence.

00:38:24 when the Anglo-Saxons were converted to Christianity

00:41:08 and that everything in it is interrelated.

00:43:45 Red and black.

00:46:18 So fiddly, these little bits, you know...

00:48:13 'I'm thinking that his brooch reminds me strongly of the most

00:50:25 And there we have it. That it?

00:52:38 'Jewel-encrusted relic boxes...

00:55:25 If you controlled the word in the Dark Ages, you controlled the world.

00:57:51 That's his sign, just so we know who it is.