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Miniatures with nine studs: interdisciplinary explorations of a new type of Viking Age artefact
Nationalmuseet (National Museum of Denmark).
2022 (English)In: Fornvännen, ISSN 0015-7813, E-ISSN 1404-9430, Vol. 117, no 1, p. 15-36Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This paper investigates the materiality and symbolic significance of a recently emerging group of Viking Age miniature pendants decorated with nine studs. Artefacts that make up this group, typically made of silver or copper alloy and known exclusively from Denmark and Norway, have all been discovered stray as a result of amateur metal detecting. Although their designs are varied and no two specimens are ever exactly the same, it appears that the number nine was of fundamental importance to their designers and users. Drawing on the ‘conceptof citation’ and theoretical approaches to miniaturisation, this study exploresthe conceptual correspondences between miniatures with nine studs and other Viking Age objects that creatively utilised the number nine motif. In creating a ‘web of citational relationships’ with a host of other artefacts, these finds can be interpreted in the context of textual sources that emphasise the importance of the number nine in the Norse worldview.

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Stockholm: Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien, 2022. Vol. 117, no 1, p. 15-36
Keywords [en]
Viking Age; Old Norse religion; Number nine; Magic; Amulets
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History and Archaeology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:raa:diva-6345OAI: oai:DiVA.org:raa-6345DiVA, id: diva2:1649926
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