Make an Impact With White Gold Bangles
Whether on white gold bangles or silver bangles, the stylish Finnish Beast style and design found on the Orkney Isles is a beautiful item which delivers a powerful wow factor. This is simply just the thing for the Christmas party season or as a gift ready to wear for Hogmanay.
This amazing animal was hand carved on the hilt of an very old sword located in Suontaka, Finland. It evokes the wonderful time of the Norse customs and linked potent and unexplainable mythology. This life-style was such a great influence in Orkney and stays so till today.
Originally seen in the burial plot of a Finnish Viking princess or noblewoman in Suontaka, Finland, and going back to the mid-10th century, this sword featuring a bronze hilt has a grace and beauty surrounding the legendary beasts. It obviously had great significance and a relationship with the woman who had been buried with these grave goods.
There were soldier females who learned soldiering skills. Perhaps she was a warrior princess in those turbulent times. She was laid to rest in armour and had two swords at her feet. Perhaps she was buried after a fight.
Saxo Grammaticus, wrote of such renowned warrior women in his History of the Danes. “There were once women in Denmark who clothed themselves to seem like men and spent virtually every minute cultivating soldier’s skills,” he wrote. “Those especially who had forceful personas or were tall and stylish set out on this way of life. As if they were forgetful of their true selves they put toughness before charm, focused on conflicts instead of kisses, tasted blood, not lips, sought the clash of arms as opposed to the arm’s embrace …”
White Gold Bangles – as Mighty as the Sword
The sword which has inspired the Finnish beast white gold bangles and silver bangles has two entwined dragons or beasts on the cross, designed in the Urnes look of the 11th century. This style often features ribbon-bodied animals, entwined with interlacing tendrils. The lines of decoration and scrolling circles are typical of the Scandinavian Urnes Style, which is given its name after the wooden designs and carvings at the church of Urne in Norway. It shows the highly accomplished, final progression of Germanic animal art in Viking regions.
If you enjoy mythical beasts of the Norse type you could add to the look with a little something from the Maeshowe collection. This will match the Finnish Beast wonderfully. The Maeshowe dragon was chiseled into the stone of a Neolithic burial place by Viking raiders who wanted to leave their mark. Fortunately they did this with lovely carvings.
Many current day sword smiths have recreated the amazing Norse workmanship with replications . in silver. Though the Orkney Finnish Beast interpretation in white gold bangles, brooches and earrings are a long-standing collection of much sought-after pieces.
Set free the beast in you! Take a look at the design of our white gold bangles and silver bangles and marvel at the craftsmanship.