Odin Pendant
Description
Gilded cast silver pendant. Front has worn relief decoration of Odin and his attendant ravens, Huginn and Muninn (Thought and Memory). Odin is rendered with a skull-like face and thin arms which clasp the birds to his breast. The face has one eye (the figure's right) clearly shown as a circular groove but the other is merely shown as a pair of worn horizontal grooves further down the cheek, suggestive of Odin’s blind eye. The head has a relief line over the top, now worn to a smudge on the figure's left (right as you look at the object); this line, which may represent hair, is touched by the beaks of the two birds; perhaps they are each whispering in Odin's ear as they inform him of their discoveries.
Object number
NOLMS:2016.026
Object
Pendant
Production date
Viking
Period
Viking
Material
Silver
Gold
Gold
Technique
Gilt
Cast
Cast
Dimensions
Length: 23.1mm
Diameter: 19.1mm
Depth: 1.6mm
Weight: 3.74g
Diameter: 19.1mm
Depth: 1.6mm
Weight: 3.74g
Provenance
WINTERINGHAM
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