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24-Feb-2022

Bound and gripping beast, silver or billon, 29 mm, 10th C, Kievan Rus'

This variant of this type of pendant places the head on the suspension loop and loses the beast heads and hands on the circling loop. The design of the contorted body and limbs is constant between the two, however. See, for example, Toropov, S.E. 2014. Chance finds of Scandinavian Viking Age objects in the Lake Ilmen region from collections of the Novgorod Museum, in Archaeological News 20, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg.

For illustrations of similar, see Sedov, V.V. 1982. Eastern Slavs in the VI-XIII centuries. Archeology of the USSR. Moscow, pg 249 and 281

I have argued that the image relates to the Lokasenna in the Poetic Edda: https://lifeartearth.blogspot.com/2015/05/a-viking-bound-gripping-beast-pendant.html

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