Production time 5-7 working days.
Estimated shipping time
North America: 1-3 weeks
South America: 3-5 weeks
Europe: 1-2 weeks
Australia, New Zealand and Oceania: 3-5 weeks
Asia Pacific: 3-5 weeks
Pendant height: 36 Millimeters; Pendant width: 28 Millimeters
We were inspired by the famous pendants "bracteates" to create this pendant.
A bracteate (from the Latin "bractea", a thin piece of metal) is a flat, thin, single-sided gold medal worn as jewelry that was produced in Northern Europe predominantly during the Migration Period of the Germanic Iron Age (including the Vendel era in Sweden).
Many of the bracteates feature ruler portraits of Germanic kings with characteristic hair that is plaited back and depictions of figures from Germanic mythology influenced to varying extents by Roman coinage while others feature entirely new motifs. The motifs are commonly those of Germanic mythology and some are believed to be Germanic pagan icons giving protection or for divination.
Often depicted is a figure with a horse, birds and sometimes a spear – that some scholars interpret as a representation of the Germanic god Wodan – and aspects of the figure that would later appear in 13th-century depictions as Odin such as the Poetic Edda. For this reason, the bracteates are a target of iconographic studies by scholars interested in Germanic religion. Several bracteates also feature runic alphabet inscriptions (a total of 133 inscriptions on bracteates are known, amounting to more than a third of the entire Elder Futhark corpus). Numerous Bracteates feature swastikas as a common motif.