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Viking earrings with a kissing couple.
Here you can buy a pair of expressive Viking earrings that were made after a so-called Guldgubbe, showing a kissing couple.
The model for the Guldgubbe earrings comes from the
Germanic Iron Age and was found on the Danish island of Bornholm. It dates to the 6th century A.D.
Link to the original Guldgubbe...
The Guldgubbe earrings come as a pair and are very nice as a
little love gift because of their amorous theme of the kissing couple.
You can buy the Guldgubbe earrings in
bronze or in real
silver-plated.
Earring
dimensions 4,5 x 1,5 cm including ear hooks
So-called guldgubber are one to two centimetre tall figures made of sheet gold. They appear exclusively in
Scandinavia and were very common in the Germanic Iron Age with 3000 finds in Norway, Sweden and Denmark.
The guldgubber were made of small, often extremely thin pieces of
gold sheet and often show a pair of lovers embracing or a kissing couple, which is interpreted as a fertility motif or as an image of a pair of gods.
The first gold plate figurines were created in the
Germanic Iron Age from around 375 and continued to be used until the Viking Age, with the heyday of the Guldgubber reaching its peak in the Vendel period between 550 and 800 AD.
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