This miniature is a modern pop-culture distillation of Norse mythology rather than a historical artifact, but its iconography reaches straight back to the Viking Age. The hammer is Mjölnir, Thor's defining attribute and the most widely reproduced symbol of Norse religion — archaeologists have recovered hundreds of Mjölnir pendants from the 9th–11th centuries, often worn in deliberate imitation of the Christian cross. The Valknut on the base is a genuine pre-Christian motif found on Gotland picture stones and the Oseberg ship burial, though its meaning remains disputed among scholars. The red beard and hair align with medieval Icelandic sources like Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda, which describe Thor as red-bearded and the strongest of the gods. The knotwork trim, however, is Celtic rather than Norse — a reminder that most Viking imagery today is a 19th-century Romantic revival blended with other traditions, and that figures like this tell us more about modern fantasy than about the Norse themselves.