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Yggdrasil Amulet - Ancient Viking 8th-11th Century Bronze Tree Of Life Pendant.  This wonderful pendant is crafted from bronze, which was made with more copper content, thus it's superb rosy colour.   The amulet is in the form of the tree of life, and displays beautiful open-work detailing. The pendant has been professionally cleaned, which brings out the detail and the beautiful patina. The detail on this example is still defined and not worn down. Professionally cleaned artifacts allows collectors to enjoy the piece in it's full glory, and enhances how it was originally intended to look. The pendant has been matched up to a bronze chain, with a secure lobster claw clasp in perfect working order.  This Viking era pendant is a stunning and highly collectible piece. Historical and so beautiful! 

The Norse tree of life is a large ash tree named Yggdrasil the world tree, which connects the Nine Worlds and is the center of the cosmos. Yggdrasil is also the tree where it's said that Odin sacrificed himself … to himself. Yggdrasil represents the cycle of life, death and rebirth.

Trees have profound roles in worlds both real and fictional. With their majestic bark, lush laid-out branches and billowing cloud of leaves, humans are drawn to them in deep fascination.

Yggdrasil, the World Tree in Viking mythology, grew on an island surrounded by the ocean, in the depths of which the World Serpent lay. This ash tree's trunk reached up to the heavens, and its boughs spread out over all the countries of the Earth. Its roots reached down into the Underworld.

The Viking Age was the period during the Middle Ages when Norsemen known as Vikings undertook large-scale raiding, colonizing, conquest, and trading throughout Europe, and reached North America. It followed the Migration Period and the Germanic Iron Age from 793 AD to when the Normans invaded England in 1066. 

Measurements: 45.00 x 38.00 mm     Chain 18"   Note: 20" Chain available upon request. 

Weight: Pendant  12.30 grams          Chain: 5.40 grams 

Condition: Excellent 

Origin: Northern Europe

Date: 8th-11th Century