Swedish viking geocoin

Beschreibung/About the coin

Deutsch

Die Swedish viking geocoin wurde durch Fredrik Wellner entworfen und gemünzt. Er beschrieb sein Design wie folgt:
Die Grundidee für diese Coin war es ein Design zu entwerfen, welches durch die Drehung der Coin verschiedene Szenarien entstehen lässt. So entstand eine Design, welches ein Wald, eine Landschaft mit Weizenfeld und Teich, ein Lagerfeuer oder das offene Meer darstellt. Die Szenarien wurden bedruckt mit Wikinger Felszeichnungen aus der näheren Umgebung von Fredrik Wellners Wohnort. Die Rückseite der Coin zeigt ein vergoldet Amulet/Schnalle aus dem achten Jahrhundert, welches auf Gotland (Schweden) gefunden worden ist. Die Ornamente auf dem Amulet zeigen typische Tierabbildungen aus der Zeit.

English

The Swedish viking geocoin is a coin designed by Fredrik Wellner. He wrote to these coins:
The idea for this coin was to make a rather simple design and turn it to get different sceneries: a forest, a field, a campfire and the sea. On top of the sceneries are prints of different petroglyphs from my area. The backside is from a gilded clasp from the 8th century found of Gotland, showing characteristic animal ornaments.

A Bountiful Land
The A bountiful land edition shows fields, a small lake and forests in the back. I was thinking of the fields and the bays of the Baltic sea in the southern parts of our municipality. This rune carving is the most classical of the carvings, it is found in the northern parts of the municipality on the shore of lake Mälaren. It was a place many people passed by boat from Birka and Sigtuna to the Baltic sea.
The carving says "Ödbjörn and Sigbjörn and Gudbjörn, the brothers, had this stone carved after Björn, their father." The carving is from the 11th century. There is a cache at the carving, Runsten Kiholmen (GC2JG1K). You can see some photos of the carving in the logs.

Holmfast's Wolf
The Holmfast's wolf edition is a part of a larger rune carving just a few hundred meters from where I (Fredrik Wellner) live. The carving has three parts, two of them are more like classical rune carvings with text. The first says (approximately) "Holmfast cleared this road to honor Ingegärd his good mother". The second says "Holmfast cleared this road and built a bridge after Gamal his father, who lived in Näsby. God save his soul. Östen (carved these runes)". The third carving is the wolf itself.
The road Holmfast built was probably a precursor of "Göta Landsväg", a famous medieval main road from Stockholm to the south parts of the country. The road is still in use today and bears Holmfasts name. The carving is dated to about 1000 AD, it's quite possible that remnants of Holmfast's bridge and road is still to be found underneath it. I find it quite fascinating that we still travel the same roads 1000 years later. There is a cache at the carving, Holmfast (GC19VEP). You can see some photos of the stone in the logs.

Stormy Weather
The Stormy weather edition shows old ships on a stormy sea. The ship carvings are known as "Lingaskeppen" and is far older than the other than the viking carvings, They are at least 2500 years old but can be even older, they are from the period 1800- 500 BC.
There is no cache pointing out the carving, it can be found at N59 04.279 E17 35.076 but you have to cross a field. There is a modern interpretation of the ships in a roundabout nearby, and those ships have a cache - "Båtar på torra land" (GC371E7).

Under the Pale Moon
The Under the pale moon edition shows a warrior that is attacked by a beast at a campfire. The picture of the warrior is from a rune stone placed at Ytterenhörna church north of Södertälje. The stone has been used as structural part of the church and is quite worn, so I had to do some assumptions of the original design. As you can see the artist didn't know of the concept of perspective drawing...
The stone is dated to 1020-1050 BC. There is a cache at the church, "Ytterenhörna" (GC3BYMV).

Details

• Größe/Size: Ø mm
• Dicke/Thickness: 45 mm
• Gewicht/Weight: 51 g
• Präfix/Prefix: FW
• Form/Shape: rund / round
• Prägung/Minting: 2D
• Farbe/Filling: soft enamel / IHE / GITD
• Vorderseite/Front: verschieden Szenarien / different sceneries
• Rückseite/Back: Amulet mit Tier Ornamente / clasp showing animal ornaments
• Besonderheit/Special feature: Entwurf, welches verschieden Szenarien zeigt / Design, which shown different sceneries
• Information/Info:
• Registrierte Trackingcodes/Total trackingcodes record:
• Groundspeak Icon-Nummer/Icon number:
• Trackbar/Trackable auf geocaching.com mit eigenem Icon/own unique icon und Mini-Icon/micro icon
  

Editionen

Icon	Auflage	Bild	Metall	Farbe	Edition-Name	Edition	Design	Shop	Veröffentlicht
	?	folgt	Black Nickel	yellow / green / blue / skyblue / cloud blue	A Bountiful Land	?	Fredrik Wellner	Geocoins Wellner	2017
	?	folgt	Black Nickel	trans. green / green	Holmfast's Wolf	?	Fredrik Wellner	Geocoins Wellner	2017
	?	folgt	Black Nickel	trans. blue + green / GITD orange / blue	Stormy Weather	?	Fredrik Wellner	Geocoins Wellner	2017
	?	folgt	Black Nickel	GITD white + GITD orange / trans. blue / orange	Under the Pale Moon	?	Fredrik Wellner	Geocoins Wellner	2017

Tags

Sweden, Viking, Sweden Viking Geocoin, Swedish Geocoin, Sweden Geocoin, Viking Geocoin, 2017, Fredrik Wellner