Gurm Gamle, or Gormo the Old, King of Denmark and a Danish youth.


Gurm Gamle, or Gormo the Old, King of Denmark and a Danish youth. The king wears a leather corslet, tunic and crown, and holds a sceptre or hammer. The youth holds a bipennis (two-headed axe), wears an embroidered tunic and greaves on his shins. 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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