Ingstad

H. Ingstad and A. Stine Ingstad, The Viking Discovery of America (2000), p. 141. As a result of the development of agriculture in the south, many important cultural advances were made there.

Remember how Earl Ingstad-- or should we say, Lagertha-- came to Ragnar's aid with her warriors?

In her examination of the tapestry, scholar Anne Stine Ingstad interprets these birds as Huginn and Muninn flying over a covered cart containing an image of Odin, drawing comparison with the images of Nerthus attested by Tacitus in 1 CE.