12 December 2024, Starts: 19:00

‘The Battle Scene on Sueno’s Stone, Forres: blood, burning and the Bible’

Online talk by Prof. Jane Geddes

Organised by Scottish Society for Northern Studies. Free. Further information and bookings from their website.

A new study of the battle scenes on ‘Sueno’s Stone’ was prompted by a detailed set of new drawings by John Borland  and a C14 dating which places it in the later 9th century. These have allowed the scenes to be scrutinised for the first time, producing evidence of Viking sacrifice and an arrangement of military engagement related to the structure of early heroic poetry, supported by connections to the biblical King David.