RARE VIKING LUNAR AMULET NECKLACE 950-1050 AD

Silvered bronze, just over 1 7/8” width (1.90”) of crescent form with raised edges and star burst tips with a pierced center. The reverse modeled in the round. This form is well known and

C.950-1050 AD. Just under 5/8" (0.57") height of cusped heart form and low rounded section with a nub at the bottom. The Viking heart in its purest form! Surface has worn from wear (1000 years ago!) a

C. 950-1050 AD. Just under 5/8" width of cusped heart form with broad double borders making three hearts one! Low rounded section. Surface worn from wear (1000 years ago!) and burial. For Vikings, the

C.950-1050 AD. Just under 5/8" (0.57") height of cusped heart form and rounded section. The Viking heart in its purest form! Surface has worn from wear (1000 years ago!) and burial. For Vikings, the h

Silvered bronze, formed as the crescent moon with expanded tips representing Sol the sun and Mani, the moon. The tips are connected by two smaller crescents with the expanded joint terminal. The combi

Gilt bronze. As expert navigators, the constellations signified mystery and power to Vikings. Lunar pendants were worn as pectorals as well as suspended from belts, other clothing, and horse harnesses

Just under 7/8" height. Bronze shaped like a duck's foot and intricately detailed with raised toes. A burial at Viden, Denmark contained the body of a woman of wealth and status buried with henbane se

Gilt bronze. As expert navigators, the constellations signified mystery and power to Vikings. Lunar pendants were worn as pectorals as well as suspended from belts, other clothing and horse harnesses.

Gilt bronze. As expert navigators, the constellations signified mystery and power to Vikings. Lunar pendants were worn as pectorals as well as suspended from belts, other clothing and horse harnesses.

Cambridgeshire, England. Gilt bronze. As expert navigators, the constellations signified mystery and power to Vikings. Lunar pendants were worn as pectorals as well as suspended from belts, other clot

Cambridgeshire, England. Silvered bronze. As expert navigators, the constellations signified mystery and power to Vikings. Lunar pendants were worn as pectorals as well as suspended from belts, other

Just under 1 1/4" (1.22") total height. Fine crescent form. As expert navigators, the constellations signified mystery and power to Vikings. The Moon was personified as Mani, brother to Sol the Sun, a

Fine large example, over 1 1/8" width. As expert navigators, the constellations signified mystery and power to Vikings. The Moon was personified as Mani, brother to Sol the Sun, and is abundantly repr

Fine large example, over 7/8" in width. As expert navigators, the constellations signified mystery and power to Vikings. The Moon was personified as Mani, brother to Sol the Sun, and is abundantly rep

Just under 1" height including the suspension loop. Crescent form with expanded terminals representing Sol the sun and Mani the Moon. As expert navigators, the constellations signified mystery and pow

Cambridgeshire, England. Silvered bronze. As expert navigators, the constellations signified mystery and power to Vikings. Lunar pendants were worn as pectorals as well as suspended from belts, other

Over 3/4" width. As expert navigators, the constellations signified mystery and power to Vikings. The Moon was personified as Mani, brother to Sol the Sun, and is abundantly represented in Norse liter

Small example, just under 7/8” total height. As expert navigators, the constellations signified mystery and power to Vikings. The Moon was personified as Mani, brother to Sol the Sun, and is abu

Small example, just under 7/8” total height. As expert navigators, the constellations signified mystery and power to Vikings. The Moon was personified as Mani, brother to Sol the Sun, and is abu

Just over 3/4" width. As expert navigators, the constellations signified mystery and power to Vikings. The Moon was personified as Mani, brother to Sol the Sun, and is abundantly represented in Norse

11th century, gilt bronze, just over 7/8" height. The perimeter is a horned crescent moon wrapping around with the tips touching and the whole enclosing a sphere. Very likely representing a lunar ecli

10th-early 11th century AD. It is 1" wide with raised edge crescent, the field with pelleted triangles, a typical Viking motif. The crescent tips, traditionally emphasized as Sol the sun and Mani 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

Vikings wore small metal brooches of various types on their jerkins to provide a measure of protection against sword cuts as well as for decoration. They were, in fact, were a form of armor. See curre