700-1100 AD, Viking Age. A silver with a D-shaped hoop, and elliptical bezel affixed to the hoop by applied coils of silver with trailing ends which wind down the shoulders and are intended to evoke the form of a snake. In Norse mythology, Jormungand (pronounced “YOUR-mun-gand;” Old Norse Jörmungandr, “Great Beast”), also called the “Midgard Serpent,” is a snake or dragon who lives in the ocean that surrounds Midgard, the visible world. He was so enormous that his body forms a circle around the entirety of Midgard. He is one of the three children of Loki and the giantess Angrboda, along with Hel and Fenrir. Excellent condition.Size: D: 18.35mm / US: 8 1/4 / UK: Q1/2; 6.7g; Provenance: From an old British collection formed in the 1990s.