bear toothamulet kalvola 9th 11th centuries bronze Piraten kleding The chainmail is made in

The chainmail is made in the 4:1 construction

Nowadays it is part of the collection of the National Museum of Ireland

Armets of this kind were highly popular amongst the European aristocracy and were employed in Italy

like the doublets of the period

bear toothamulet kalvola 9th 11th centuries bronze Piraten kleding The chainmail is made inThis amulet in the shape of a stylized bear's tooth is a replica of a Viking Age find, excavated from a body grave in Kalvola, Hme (Finland), and dating between the 9th and 11th centuries. The original hung at the end of a chain attached to a chain divider, next to a pair of scale fibulae. More than seventy of these bear tooth pendants called 'karhunhammasriipus' in Finnish have been found in Finland, often from bronze. It amulet reflects an early,