Viking Answer Lady Gifts : Bjornsborg "Back Cover" Bears

Gunnvör's Bjornsborg Bear cartoon vignettes appeared for years on the back covers of The Bear Necessities newsletter. Now you can enjoy them again, as a T-shirt proclaiming your Bjornsborg pride!

Ansteorran Longship Company For each item sold in this section, $2 will be donated to the Ansteorran Longship Company.	Deeds of Heroes Website Art T-Shirt designs based on the "Deeds of Heroes" event webpage art.	Hunting with Falcons Hunting with falcons, from A Treatise of Falconry by Emperor Frederick II (Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale)	Assyrian War Chariot The Bjornsborg Bear in an Assyrian war chariot, from the Palace at Nimrud, 8th century B.C.
Bjornsborg 1066 A detail from the Bayeaux Tapestry, showing a Bjornsborg Bear among the messengers or heralds (nuntii).	Bjornsborg Bowman A Bjornsborg Bear demonstrating the noble art of archery.	Byzantine Bear A Bjornsborg Bear in Byzantine dress from the reign of Justinian, c. 530 - 540.	Bear of the Spanish March Charlemagne invests Roland as Lord of the Spanish March. From a 12th century manuscript.
Bjornsborg Kitchen Crew The Bjornsborg Bears show just how to prepare that famous Bjornsborg specialty, Leek Soup.	Dacian Bear Here the Bjornsborg Bear is garbed as a Dacian king of the 10th to 11th century.	East vs. West A Turk and a Knight of St. John, c. 1490. From Guillaume Caorsin's Relation du Siège de Rhodes.	Gallic Horseman Gallic horseman, from an engraving in Guizot's L'Historie de France.
Jumping Rope Here we see young Bjornsborg Bears jumping rope... or are these adults who just refuse to grow up? A perfect gift for a Bjornsborg child, Minister of Children, or the young at heart.	Ambassabear to King Æthelstan The Bjornsborg Bear shown as an ambassador to King Æthelstan. From MS Stowe 944.	Samurai Bear Bear-San here is armed and accoutered as a Samurai Warrior.	Yuks Ride Free! The Sarmatian Yuk tribe rides again in this freize from an electrum vase dated to the 4th century B.C., found in the Steppesland just north of the Black Sea.
Stained Glass Bear St. Denis blessing a crusader's arms. From a 13th century window in Chartres Cathedral.	Bears in the Tavern The Bjornsborg Bears do love their potables, and here someone in the tavern has left the keg unattended!	The Teeth of the Bear Once an invading warband sneered that the Bjornsborg War Banner Bear had no teeth. The Baron's answer, pointing to the armed Bjornsborg Warriors: "THESE are the Teeth of the Bear!"	Vandal Bear Vandals don't just duct-tape people into their tents at night, as seen in this depiction of a Vandal lord from Carthage, shown in a 6th century mosaic.
Longship Bear The salt-spray glistening in his fur, sharp bardiche ever-ready for combat, this Viking Bear looks out from the prow of his longship, dreaming of Heroes!