Borre-Jellinge style buckle gripping-beast

Product description

The Viking buckle is based on motifs in two Viking art styles from the 9^th–10^th century. It is well-suited to belt straps with a width of 3 cm and measures 4,5 x 4,5 cm. It is bronze coloured.

The decoration on this buckle depicts a mask-like animal head en face with two large eyes at the centre of the buckle and its two gripping hands. This is the Borre style gripping-beast decoration. The buckle also displays an overlap with the Jellinge style that followed the Borre style: a ribbon-animal like motif that fills the whole surface of the buckle.

Historical examples of a combination of these two styles may be found in, amongst others, the Vårby hoard and the Gnëzdovo hoard.