Pendant

Tongue-shaped bronze pendant. Silvered with a niello swirl and carved rope decoration. On the tongue tip on the bottom edge the Old Norse and not the Christian triquetra (valknut) is depicted. On a horizontal band across the upper part of the pendant there is a Christian cross. Two symbols taken from different belief systems, but whose significance is partially the same. Stray find, Roma Parish, Gotland.

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

Object number: 454232_HST

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