Photo: Southwest Jutland Museums.
This beautiful ophidian pendant was of late discovered close Gørding inward Kingdom of Denmark past times Jean Stokholm in addition to Doris Birch Mathiesen. Fashioned out of gilded in addition to decorated using the filigree technique, it almost probable dates from the the tenth century AD.
It was originally suspended via a loop formed out of gilded wire that was ornamented amongst a dyad of greenish drinking glass beads. Serpent pendants such every bit this i are known from across Viking Age Scandinavia in addition to it has been suggested that they may bring been associated amongst fertility or the god Odin (see Graslund, p. 126). This novel notice at i time forms business office of the Southwest Jutland Museums.
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