Tattoo portfolio by Obban
Explore Obban’s galleries of different Scandinavian art styles, ranging from the early Iron Age till the end of the Viking Age.




A cleaner style with interwoven slender dragons and vines.




A more elaborate and organic followup on the Mammen style. Named after the sand runestones in Ringerike, Norway.




Named after the discovery of the famous Mammen axe-head, in a grave in Mammen, on Jylland, Denmark. Full bodied animals with ribbons and plant like decoration




Cat heads and gripping beasts, named after the artifacts found at Borre burial site in Norway.




Named after the famous Oseberg ship burial in Norway




This style was named after the discoveries that were made at the gravefield in Broa, Gotland, Sweden.




Salin styles 1-3 from the Migration Period laid the foundation to the later styles in the Viking Age.

