VIKING-AGE ICONOGRAPHY is mostly studied through stone sculpture and carvings and through metal dress accessories, which are often poorly contextualised finds. Here we present a new approach by studying an assemblage of casting moulds for figurative dress accessories from an early 9th-century workshop context in Ribe (Jutland, Denmark). We provide digital reconstructions of the fragmented moulds, including ‘Valkyrie’ pendants showing female figures bearing weapons. Comparable finds are mainly found in western Scandinavia, and the motifs demonstrate familiarity with images from Classical Antiquity and the Carolingian Renaissance. By highlighting iconographic and stylistic parallels with the tapestries of the Oseberg ship burial, we apply a novel perspective to the discussion of the armed woman motif and other Viking-Age figurative art. We argue that the common theme of the images is not the portrayal of heroic or mythological beings, but is instead ritual performance, in which women played a central role. We also consider the implications of the urban production context for this group of objects.

VIKING-AGE ICONOGRAPHY 主要是通过石雕和雕刻以及金属服饰配件来研究的，这些配件通常是缺乏背景的发现。在这里，我们通过研究来自 9 世纪早期 Ribe（日德兰半岛，丹麦）的车间环境中的具象服饰配饰的铸造模具组合，提出了一种新方法。我们提供碎片模具的数字重建，包括显示携带武器的女性形象的“女武神”吊坠。类似的发现主要在斯堪的纳维亚西部发现，这些图案表明对古典古代和加洛林文艺复兴时期的图像很熟悉。通过突出图像和风格与 Oseberg 船葬挂毯的相似之处，我们应用了一种新颖的视角来讨论武装女性主题和其他维京时代的具象艺术。我们认为这些图像的共同主题不是对英雄或神话人物的刻画，而是仪式表演，其中女性扮演了核心角色。我们还考虑了城市生产环境对这组对象的影响。