EXTRAORDINARY VIKING HEART PENDANT NECKLACE

Gilt bronze. Just over 3/4" width. The fully evolved cusped top form with rounded edge forming a heart within a heart. The bottom with a nub and a four-circle cluster above. The heart stood for braver

Gilt bronze. Just over 7/8" width. The fully evolved cusped top form with rounded edge forming a heart within a heart. This, along with others, would have been worn by a warrior on his jerkin and prov

Gilt bronze. Just over 7/8" width. The fully evolved cusped top form with rounded edge forming a heart within a heart. This, along with others, would have been worn by a warrior on his jerkin and prov

Gilt bronze. Just under 7/8" width. Fully developed form with cusped top. The heart formed in very high relied on as a trefoil raised curvilinear border with the bottom terminals formed as trefoils fi

Classic heart form. 5/8" height plus the suspension loop. Central high relief heart in its fully evolved form with cusped top, and beaded surround. The cusp bridged with another forming a pierced hear

Iconic elongated waisted heart form with a finely incised heart, matching for form and beaded border. A heart within a heart! The side indents with nubs. Just under 3/4” in height (0.73”).

Just over 5/8" height (0.65"), total. The Viking heart in its fully developed form with a cusp top formed by the terminals of the broad borders. The center with an elaborate trefoil (foliate motif). B

Rare variation with cully developed cusped heart flanked by tear shaped form, undoubtedly of spiritual significance, now lost. Nubs at the intersections and the firms outlined in deeply engraved borde

Classic heart form. Under 1/2" width (0.47"). Raised borders with an S scroll to the sides, and cusped tope supporting a trefoil, a favorite Viking theme. That feature evidently had spiritual signific

Classic heart form. Over 5/8" width (0.69"). Stylized with the cusp expressed as a pair of wings and thee body with nubbed sixth points, a common feature. Raised border with a beaded border within sur

Classic heart form. Under 5/8" width (0.56"). Stylized with the cusp expressed as a pair of wings and the body with nubbed sixth points, a standard feature. Raised border with a beaded border surround

Classic heart form. Over 5/8" width (0.64"). Stylized with the cusp expressed as a pair of wings and the body with nubbed sixth points, a standard feature. Raised border with a beaded border surroundi

Gilt bronze. 0.51" height, just over ½” plus the loop. Evolutionary form stylized as foliage which is an evolution of the trefoil motif that Vikings favored. Made by the open-face mold tech

A fine example in its evolutionary form. Just under 1” height. The form as an elongated heart with cusped top and nubbed medials which form the terminals of an incised trefoil, a favorite Viking

Charm size, just over 3/4” height including the suspension loop, with nubs at the quarter points defining a saltire. Framed central raised heart of archaic form. A rounded border swelled at the

A good example is its fully evolved form. Tapered section and fully evolved cusped top with broadly rounded border forming a heart within a heart, filled with a pierced trefoil, a favorite Viking imag

A good example is its fully evolved form. Tapered section and fully evolved cusped top with broadly rounded border forming a heart within a heart! 5/8" height plus the loop, made by the open face mold

A fine example in its fully evolved form. Just OVER 5/8” height. Iconic fully developed cusped top full form. The broad raised borders forming the cusp and continuing as the top members of the c

Classic heart form. Over 5/8”" in height plus the loop. Low domed heart in its fully evolved with cusped top and broad border. Broad heart-shaped edge. Central trefoil, a popular Viking image wi

Over 3/4" width. Fully developed form with cusped top and nubs at the sixth points. The center with a high domed heart. A heart within a heart!. Domed section, made by the open face mold technique. Th

Early example of the evolutionary form with cusped top, formed from the scrolling sides forming crescents above a trefoil. The cusped top heart is indicative of a transition from the naturalistic form

Classic heart form. Under 1/2" width (0.47"). Raised borders with an S scroll to the sides, and cusped tope supporting a trefoil, a favorite Viking theme. That feature evidently had spiritual signific

Slightly under 1" width of fully evolved cusped top heart form. Broad-line border scrolling to for the cusp and the top of a trefoil, completed by an angular terminal. Lower quartered nubs. The form i

Silvered bronze, just over 1” height. The Viking heart in its fully developed form with full cusp top formed by the medial nubs and a full heart forming the bottom. Two hearts in one! Relatively