It appears on a pictorial memorial stone found on the Swedish island of Gotland, and on grave goods included in the Oseberg ship burial in Norway, where it is inscribed on a bedpost, and appears on a tapestry, though the surviving image is extremely fragmentary.
The Valknut and the DeadĮxamples of the Valknut mainly survive on a number of Viking runestones, and in association with burials. This name was chosen as the Valknut appears to be associated with the dead, and with Odin, the god of war and the dead. It combines the words for slain warrior, “valr”, and knot “knut”, to mean “knot of slain warriors”. The name Valknut is not a traditional Viking name, but a modern Norwegian title given to the symbol. It is generally though that these are variations of the same symbol, as archaeologically, they appear in the same contexts.
The Borromean form is three interlocking but separate triangles, while the unicursal form is drawn using a single line. It is known from the Viking world in two forms. The Valknut symbol involves three interlocking triangles.
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