The Mammen style is a phase of Scandinavian animal art during the late 10th century and the early 11th century.[1] The style is named after finds from a chamber tomb in Mammen on Jutland, Denmark.[1] The finds included a silver engraved axe of which one side shows a markedly stylized animal with long appendages braided along the body.[1] There are animal representations that can have a more realistic style, like one of the lions on the Jelling stones.[1] During this style there was an introduction of plant motifs.[1]
The animal ornamentation of the Viking Age is usually categorized into Oseberg style, Borre style, Jelling style, Mammen style, Ringerike style and Urnes style.[2]
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