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<p>[QUOTE="Tejas, post: 5556232, member: 84905"]Here is an item from my small collection of antiquities. It is an Anglo-Saxon silver fibula (or brooch), with gilded sections and cabochons. The piece dates to the first half of the 6th century. Note the four beast heads (Woden?), with the lower one apparently exhaling (which would link it etymologically to the name Woden). The fibula is completely intact apart from one missing cabochon and the iron pin, which has rusted away. (Bought from a UK antiques dealer "Trinity Antiques" with export licence in c2010).</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1241247[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The nose-eyebrows part of the faces reminds me, of what is believed to be a representation of the Irminsul from the Externsteine in Germany. The Irminsul (Yggdrasil the world tree) was the most important cultic centre of the continental Saxons, before it was destroyed by Charlemagne during his Saxon wars:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1241253[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Tejas, post: 5556232, member: 84905"]Here is an item from my small collection of antiquities. It is an Anglo-Saxon silver fibula (or brooch), with gilded sections and cabochons. The piece dates to the first half of the 6th century. Note the four beast heads (Woden?), with the lower one apparently exhaling (which would link it etymologically to the name Woden). The fibula is completely intact apart from one missing cabochon and the iron pin, which has rusted away. (Bought from a UK antiques dealer "Trinity Antiques" with export licence in c2010). [ATTACH=full]1241247[/ATTACH] The nose-eyebrows part of the faces reminds me, of what is believed to be a representation of the Irminsul from the Externsteine in Germany. The Irminsul (Yggdrasil the world tree) was the most important cultic centre of the continental Saxons, before it was destroyed by Charlemagne during his Saxon wars: [ATTACH=full]1241253[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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