Design Set • Viking Artifact Designs

175+ accurate Viking designs — taken directly from real historical artifacts. Runestones, stave churches, and Urnes brooches, redrawn in fine detail for anyone who needs reliable visual references rooted in the Viking Age.

What’s inside the Set?

• 175+ artifact designs (exact total: 177)
• Drawn from runestones, stave church carvings, and Urnes openwork brooches
• Meticulous line art based on original archaeological finds
• Delivered in PNG (high-res raster) + AI (vector/Illustrator)
• Clean, scalable illustrations for print, digital, or academic publishing

Crafted with Historical Accuracy

Unlike creative reinterpretations, this set focuses on faithful renderings of Viking Age artifacts. Every design is redrawn by Jonas Lau Markussen with care and precision, capturing the details of original archaeological sources while providing clean, modern files ready for use.

More information about the artifacts themselves can be found in the online compendium at Gelmir.com.

Who’s it For?

• Academics & archaeology students
• Museum professionals
• Educators & publishers
• Designers & illustrators
• Tattooers
• Hobbyists & history enthusiasts

Choose the Right License for You!

This design set comes with different licensing options to fit your needs.

Learn more about our licenses here

Why this Set?

This collection brings together and expands several previous sets (Runestone Designs, Urnes Stave Church Designs, and Urnes Openwork Brooch Designs) into one comprehensive reference resource. Instead of working across multiple smaller packs, you now get them all in one place — fully consolidated and evergreen.

This set represents a visual archive of the Viking Age. The motifs and carvings preserved in stone, wood, and metal were never meant only as decoration — they carried meaning, identity, and artistry across centuries. Having them carefully redrawn makes them accessible in a way that photographs or field sketches often can’t: clean, scalable, and immediately usable.

For academics, this means trustworthy illustrations of the artifacts for teaching, research, and publication. For creatives, it’s a shortcut into authenticity — whether you’re designing tattoos, book covers, or museum displays, you can build directly from the lines of history itself. And for hobbyists and history enthusiasts, it’s a chance to work hands-on with designs that shaped the visual language of the Viking Age.

This set isn’t just a collection of drawings — it’s a bridge between the archaeological record and today’s creative work.