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title: Borre-style Pendant with a Gripping Beast
author: Irina-Maria Manea
source: https://www.worldhistory.org/image/15202/borre-style-pendant-with-a-gripping-beast/
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license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)
updated: 1970-01-01
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# Borre-style Pendant with a Gripping Beast

_Authored by [Irina-Maria Manea](https://www.worldhistory.org/user/irinamaria.manea/)_

## Image File

[![Borre-style Pendant with a Gripping Beast](https://www.worldhistory.org/uploads/images/15202.jpg)](https://www.worldhistory.org/uploads/images/15202.jpg)

## Image Caption

Pendant with a Borre-style design of a gripping beast inside a frame further decorated with four protruding animal heads. Small areas of gilding and niello are in evidence on the surface of the pendant. Found at Norfolk, [England](https://www.worldhistory.org/disambiguation/england/), 10th century.

The British Museum, London.

The Borre style is a style of [Viking art](https://www.worldhistory.org/Viking_Art/) with forms arranged in closed compositions with knot-like interlacing. Animal motifs appear more naturalistic, with relaxed bodies. Spirals are introduced to represent joints, and figures may be reduced to decorative heads or appear as in-the-round forms.

## About the Author

A curious and open mind, fascinated by the past. Historian with a keen interest in Norse myth and the Viking Age, as well as history teacher and language instructor. Originally from Bucharest, Romania, now residing in Hesse, Germany.
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## Cite This Work

### APA
Manea, I. (2022, January 27). Borre-style Pendant with a Gripping Beast. *World History Encyclopedia*. <https://www.worldhistory.org/image/15202/borre-style-pendant-with-a-gripping-beast/>
### Chicago
Manea, Irina-Maria. "Borre-style Pendant with a Gripping Beast." *World History Encyclopedia*, January 27, 2022. <https://www.worldhistory.org/image/15202/borre-style-pendant-with-a-gripping-beast/>.
### MLA
Manea, Irina-Maria. "Borre-style Pendant with a Gripping Beast." *World History Encyclopedia*, 27 Jan 2022, <https://www.worldhistory.org/image/15202/borre-style-pendant-with-a-gripping-beast/>.

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