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 “S-shaped“. This lur can be described as a thin-walled, 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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