Description
Solid golden bronze.
A beautiful Viking brooch that shows an openwork depiction of intertwined serpentine creatures.
The model for this brooch is a detail from a baptismal font showing a depiction of Gunnar in the snake pit. According to the legend, the Burgundian king Gundahar (Gunther, Gunnar) was thrown to the snakes by his brother-in-law Atli (Etzel, Atilla) in order to persuade him to surrender his treasure.
The depiction of serpentine creatures or snakes was often thematized in Viking art. Not only was the story of Gunnar in the snake pit often depicted in Viking art, but the Viking prince Ragnar Lodbrok is also said to have died beating his harp in a snake pit into which the English king Ælle had thrown him, and King Olav Tryggvasson's famous warship was called Ormen Lange, meaning long snake.
The baptismal font is today in the National Museum in Copenhagen / Denmark.
2 1/4" x 1 1/2" brooch size with 1 1/2" pin
This handmade Celtic brooch is in high-quality golden bronze.
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