Historical Viking - Belt buckle / Birka in Borre style, bronze
Historical Viking belt buckle, made of bronze - suitable for belts up to 2.9 cm wide.
Belt buckle made of solid bronze, crafted and modeled after an original belt buckle from a grave find in Birka, Vestfold, in the Norwegian county of Horten. The original dates from the 10th century AD.
The belt buckle belongs to the Borre style, also known as the griffin style. This was a Viking Age art style from the mid-9th to approximately the mid-10th century.
The art style developed from Germanic animal-style ornamentation. Mirror-symmetrical heads and animal depictions, squares, circles, concentric ornaments, and interlace ornaments are characteristically expressed here.
Mythical creatures are often associated with geometric braided ornaments.
The Borre style phase of early medieval art also features mythical creatures, triangular heads - upright ears, spherical eyes and plastic noses characterize this Nordic-Germanic art style.
Belt buckle dimensions:
- Width: approx. 10 cm
- Height: approx. 4.8 cm
- Weight: approx. 53 g.
ATTENTION! The buckle is NOT compatible with our belt item number 55.002...