Ca. 700-900 AD. Northern Europe. A beautiful silver pendant with integral loop shaped like a bearded Viking axe head. This type of amulet is modelled after the axe Molnia and is often seen as a counterpart to the common Mjölnir amulet. Some associate these axe pendants with Perun who was the ruler of the living world, sky and earth in Slavic mythology. Good condition. For more information on Viking Jewellery, see Arbman, H. (1940). Birka I Die Gräber. Uppsala & Hubbard, B. (2016) The Viking Warrior. Amber Books Ltd, London, 61-65.Size: L:24mm / W:13mm ; 3g. Provenance: Property of a London gentleman, part of his family collection formed in the 1980s-2000.