A detailed replica of an openwork disc brooch based on a Viking original from the second half of the 10th century, which represents a symbiosis between the Jelling and Borre style.

The historical model for this beautiful Viking jewellery was found in Cambridgeshire in England. However, brooches of this type are also known from other Viking Age sites. Five such finds of these disc brooches alone are known from Birka in Sweden, three from Denmark and even one from Saxony-Anhalt in Germany.

The Viking jewellery has a solid pin of about 1 mm thickness on the back, which is used to fasten the brooch to the garment, preferably to close the shirt neckline. The Jelling style developed in the second half of the 10th century at the Danish royal court in Jelling (Jutland). The characteristics of the Jelling style are band and S-shaped animal figures.

The Jelling style was used on wooden, metal and stone utilitarian objects, jewellery and runic crosses and arose from the increased contact of the Scandinavian with the Anglo-Saxon world during the Viking Age, in whose art slender, elongated animal figures were already used.

Through these Anglo-Saxon influences, the gripping beast that dominated Viking art styles was replaced as the main motif and was now replaced by ribbon-shaped animal figures depicted in profile.

Dimensions
Diameter: 3.5 cm (same as original)
Material: Bronze