heart and gripping beast

 The Urnes heart, a well known shape, also in the old times, filled with one of the latest viking art styles from the 12th century.  925 sterling silver

The gripping beast brooch:  The gripping beast is a popular design in early medieval norse art, we find it from Oseberg (NO) til Gnezdowo (RUS) 925 sterling silver

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Triskel

Off course this brooch is designed along the early medieval nortern european styles, 925 Sterling silver solid, more informations at : faust.jewellery@gmx.com

Hammer " Ragnarök"

This pendant sows Thor´s last battle at Ragnarök, Thor hits the Midgardserpent on the head and it bites him in her last gasp, so they both die.

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Hammer "Midgard"

I wrote the story before :) Just wanted to show the different versions of that beautiful piece, big silver for the boys, small silver for the girls and the big bronze for...

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Death of Bonifatius

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sketch for the pendant

This Pendant shows the death of Bonifatius, the Missionar, that brought Christianity to the frankish empire with the desecration of the sacred pagan places, he cut down Donar´s Oak, the central holy tree and was killed by heathen people in Dokkum 754.
 History tells us how the one slaying him was so furious, that he split the bible, that bonifatius used to protect his head, and Bonifat´head in one blow.

Therefore you can see bonifatius kneeling with his bible in his hand and a man standing over him swinging the axe.

More Bling

The Hammer of Thor is showing the moment, when Thor is going fishing with the giant Hymir and it is all about catching the biggest fish, off course.
So Thor decapitates the finest bull in Hymirs posession and uses the head as a bait.
They row far out and Thor is not impressed about the two whales, Hymir pulls up.
Further out, Thor pulls up the Midgardserpent itself, a giant snake, that surrounds the world.
He wants to kill it with his hammer, but Hymir is so scared, that he cuts the line and the serpent sinks back.
So in the weaving of the hammer you can see the Midgardserpent swallowing the bait.
That saga was depicted very often by the norsemen on runestones, etc.

The heads on the necklace are replicas from Kungsgården, Gamla Uppsala (SE) from around 1000- 1100.

Finest quality work, availiable in 925 Sterling silver and bronze.

Merchandise and Bling 1

 The shirt: For boys and girls in all sizes availiable.

 My jewelry designs: The necklace is a combination, it contains

The norvegian hammer, the top is taken from the oseberg sledge (8th century, eastern norway), the beast in the hammerhead is a design from the inside of the Urnes stavchurch (1130, western norway)

The snakeheads are inspired by a finnish finding.

The sunwheel brooch: The design is inspired by many pre-christian sunwheel broches, from early Roman up to Vendel age and Viking pieces.

More to come...