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MEDIEVAL SILVER AXE-SHAPED PENDANT

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MEDIEVAL SILVER AXE-SHAPED PENDANT
MEDIEVAL SILVER AXE-SHAPED PENDANT
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Ca. 700-900 AD. Northern Europe. A beautiful silver pendant, with an integral loop, shaped like an axe head. Good condition. This type of amulet is modelled after the axe Molnia and is often seen as a counterpart to the common Mjölnir amulet. Some associate these axe pendants with Perun who was the ruler of the living world, sky and earth in Slavic mythology. For more information on Viking Jewellery, see Arbman, H. (1940). Birka I Die Gräber. Uppsala and Hubbard, B. (2016) The Viking Warrior. Amber Books Ltd, London, 61-65. Size: L:17mm / W:5mm ; 2.4g. Provenance: Obtained on the London art market in the early 2000s; formerly from the collection of an English Family, by descents from the 1970s.
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MEDIEVAL SILVER AXE-SHAPED PENDANT

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