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===Gullgubber=== {{main|Gullgubber}} Small pieces of gold foil featuring engravings dating from the [[Migration Period]] into the early [[Viking Age]] (known as ''[[gullgubber]]'') have been discovered in various locations in [[Scandinavia]], at one site almost 2,500. The foil pieces have been found largely on the sites of buildings, only rarely in graves. The figures are sometimes single, occasionally an animal, sometimes a man and a woman with a leafy bough between them, facing or embracing one another. The human figures are almost always clothed and are sometimes depicted with their knees bent. Scholar [[Hilda Ellis Davidson]] says that it has been suggested that the figures are taking part in a dance, and that they may have been connected with weddings, as well as linked to the [[Vanir]] group of gods, representing the notion of a divine marriage, such as in the ''Poetic Edda'' poem ''[[Skírnismál]]''; the coming together of Gerðr and Freyr.{{sfn|Davidson|1988|p=121}} <gallery> File:Guldgubbe.jpg Image:Three kings or three gods.jpg|The Skog Church Tapestry portion possibly depicting Odin, Thor and Freyr File:Goldgubb.jpg|An example of the small gold pieces of foil that may depict Gerðr and Freyr </gallery>
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