Petroglyph with Axes at Tanum, a Nordic Bronze Age site.

Supposed twin gods in battle-axe fight from the rock carvings at Tanum (around Tanumshede), a Nordic Bronze Age site. (the red colour is recent to make them carvings more visible).

Note that the body of the more or less human figures is a circle with a cross.

O. Montelius, Sveriges hednatid, samt medeltid, förra skedet från år 1060 till år 1350, H. Linnstroms förlag, 1877.
[Bibtex]

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  author      = {{Oskar. Montelius}},
  title       = {Sveriges hednatid, samt medeltid, förra skedet från år 1060 till år 1350},
  year        = {1877},
  editora     = {{Oxford University}},
  publisher   = {H. Linnstroms förlag},
  pagetotal   = {512},
  url         = {http://archive.org/details/sverigeshednati00montgoog},
  urldate     = {2016-07-25},
  abstract    = {Book digitized by Google from the library of Oxford University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.},
  editoratype = {collaborator},
  file        = {sverigeshednati00montgoog.pdf:media/trismegisto/Vitamin/Documents/Bibliography/sverigeshednati00montgoog.pdf:PDF},
  owner       = {trismegisto},
  timestamp   = {2016-07-25},
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