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A remarkable collection of religious items sourced from diverse lands was
unearthed during archaeological excavations on the Swedish island of Helgo in 1954.
This small island, located in Lake Malaren, to the west of Stockholm, was an important
Viking trading and manufacturing center (6th-11th centuries AD) and produced a large collection
of artefacts, including numerous exotic finds such as Arabic coins, Frankish glass and
metal-work from across western Europe.
Discovered close together, these artefacts included a Buddha from the Indian sub-continent,
an elaborate crozier-head from Ireland and a bronze ladle from North-Africa.
Undoubtedly the most extraordinary find discovered during the excavations at Helgo was a small,
bronze statuette of the Buddha, a devotional figure dated from circa the 5th-6th century AD.
The statuette was probably made in Kashmir, on the Pakistan/India border.
Leather straps on the statue indicate that it was carried as a talisman by merchant
traders.
Historians hypothesize that the Buddha was carried over thousand of miles,
up and down the rivers and steppes of Eurasia, before arriving on the mantlepiece of a
Viking home in Sweden, perhaps after two or three hundred years of travel.
The Buddha has a silver urna on his forehead, symbolizing the third eye, while the ears have long lobes,
the insignia of royalty. He sits in a meditative pose upon a double lotus throne, the latter
representing purity.
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