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Viking Bronze 'Birka Falcon' Sword Scabbard Chape

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Viking Bronze 'Birka Falcon' Sword Scabbard Chape

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9th-10th century AD. A cast bifacial scabbard chape, D-shaped with scooped upper edge; the openwork centre of each face formed with a stylised bird with wings extended to the frame; the apex to one face extended with a collared knop and central pellet; incised contoured borders to the frame and bird. See the 'Birka falcon' identified in Paulsen, P. Schwertortbänder der Wikingerzeit, Stuttgart, 1953, in relation to the trading centre on the island of Birka, eastern Sweden. See also Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson for the significance of the falcon motif to the society of Birka, particularly with regard to the development of a 'princely family' and its heraldic display, in Rus, Varangians and Birka Warriors (2002). 23 grams, 59mm (2 1/2"). Property of a German collector; acquired in the 1990s.