Pendant

Tongue-shaped, gilded bronze pendant. Silvered with niello decoration. In the upper edge there is an Old Norse, non-Christian triquetra (valknut), in the lower edge is the Christian cross. Two symbols taken from different belief systems, but whose significance is partially the same. Stray find, Lokrume Parish, Gotland.

Image rights: Ola Myrin, Historiska museet/SHM (CC BY 4.0