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A very distinctive 10th century Viking Borre-style gripping beast pendant portrays a four-legged figure with an impish cat-like face, two arms bound to a framing structure, and one paw gripping part of the creature's own contorted back. A number of such pendants were found in Europe (see the last picture), including in Ukraine, which at that time was called Rus' or Kyivan Rus'.
Relying on written sources, some researchers see Loki's image in this pendant. In our opinion, this is a rather interesting and reasoned explanation.
"according to the prose note at the end of the Lokasenna, the gods bound Loki with the bowels of his son Vali, and changed his other son, Narfi, into a wolf. Snorri turns the story about Vali being the wolf, who tears his brother to pieces, the gods then using Narfi's intestines to bind Loki. Narfi and presumably Vali were the sons of Loki and his wife, Sigyn. They appear only in this episode, though Narfi (or Nari) is named by Snorri in his list of Loki's children."
Ru Smith thinks that the pendant could represent something along the lines of the "containment of chaos" or "the restraint of wild impulses" as represented by the binding of Loki.