A Drotte and a Fola, priest and priestess of the Gothic Scandinavians. He wears a long habit and holds a large horn of gold to receive a human blood sacrifice. She wears a scapular, short linen skirt, trousers, carries the sacrificial knife inscribed with Runes. In the background, a naked Fola performs a human sacrifice. Handcoloured aquatint by R. Havell from an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith from Samuel Meyrick's Costume of the Original Inhabitants of the British Islands, London, 1821.

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