You are handed the raven banner - do you carry a flag that kills?
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You are handed the raven banner - do you carry a flag that kills?
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You are handed the raven banner - do you carry a flag that kills?
In this episode, we follow the scattered records and stories about a raven banner that men coveted and feared across two centuries of Norse warfare. The episode traces how chroniclers, coins, sagas and tapestries describe a banner that functioned as both symbol and alleged agent - what does it mean to carry such an object?
Person: Sigurd the Stout
Event: Capture of a raven banner in Devonshire
Date: 878
Source: Anglo-Saxon Chronicle; Orkneyinga Saga; coin imagery
- An army of 803 men died in Devonshire in 878 and the Chronicle notes, almost as an afterthought, that the raven banner was taken.
- Coins from around 940 show a triangular standard with tabs, indicating the raven standard was a recognizable emblem by the mid‑10th century.
- The Orkneyinga Saga credits a finely embroidered raven banner to Sigurd the Stout, crafted by his mother, a völva who used seiðr and promised its power.
- Contemporary Norse belief linked ravens to Odin’s ravens Huginn and Muninn, making a raven on a banner a claim that Odin was watching and choosing the slain.
- Anglo‑Saxon writers treated a captured raven banner as a pagan idol, recording its seizure without elaboration and leaving its subsequent fate unrecorded.
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