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Is this the largest Thor's Hammer we've ever made? Making a replica of the large pendant from the Hiddensee hoard.
By JimTags: Blog, asgard, vikings, modern vikings, re-enactment, vikingjewellery, viking jewelry, historical reproductions
We first saw the massive Hiddensee hoard pendants in 2013 at the Vikings exhibition in the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen, and nothing can prepare you for seeing just how big these pieces of gold jewellery really are! Of course, we were already familiar with the hoard, and the style of pendant is well known from the Viking era, but these individual pieces are just so big, that they were instantly added to the list of designs we wanted to make.
The craft of Asgard - where it all started. By Jim Glazzard.
By JimCategories: Asgard, re-enactment
I graduated from the University of York with a degree in Archaeology in 1994, and an interest in Viking culture that was expressed through Viking re-enactment. Involving fighting, re-creating some Viking age objects for personal use, and, what I later came to realise was, interpreting Viking age history and archaeology for the general public at events up and down the British Isles.
