Nordic Bronze Age Lures 1700 500 BC and the Kings grave
Description: The bronze lur is made entirely of bronze. There are two forms of lurs. The latest and most developed is the Sshaped. This lur can be described as a thinwalled, conical tube, about 1 meter 50 cm to 2 meter 25 cm. The other older form of lurs, less developed, was shorter, slightly bent and lacking the endplate. The Wismar horn from Germany an older lur type. The earliest references to an instrument called the lur come from Icelandic sagas, where they are described as war instrume
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