REAL Viking Jewellery Guide: Rings, Pendants and Bracelets (Oh My!)

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Bling is the thing! Vikings loved it and so should you! The Viking and Early Medieval period was awash with gold, silver, garnets, rubies, crystal, and all sorts of beautiful creations! But what sort of arm rings and neckwear did the Vikings and Anglo-Saxons really wear? And how can you tell what's good for your re-enactment impression?
Join me as we take a look at just a few of the thousands of shiny things the Viking world left for us. We might even learn a new Welsh word on the way there!
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@TheWelshViking 3 года назад

Ok, the teeth thing. My Mari Lwyd (see vid) had some loose teeth, and I had to pop them back into place. I ran out of hands, so one of them got clamped between my jaws. Hence knowing the unpleasant tase of horse gnashers.

@Sandra-P.713 3 года назад

🤣🤣

@Graham_Rule 3 года назад

I did wonder but thought it would be impolite to ask. :D

@rachelboersma-plug9482 3 года назад

I suspected that might be the case.

@annefl3423 3 года назад

🤣🤣

@michellecornum5856 3 года назад

I didn't ask. 😆 Things happen. My children were horrified to know that I know what dirt, grass, and -- er, corral dust taste like.

@euansmith3699 3 года назад

"Have you heard about Snorri's new jewellery?" "Yes, it is the torc of the town."

@elizabeth-lisa-m2782 3 года назад

((giggle))

@AgentPedestrian 3 года назад

Oooh TORC... I thought it was Torque and was confused when the massive golden doughnut did not appear before my eyes upon a cursory search

@euansmith3699 3 года назад

@@AgentPedestrian The Celts with the huge torques were always pulling burnouts when racing their chariots in the street.

@crow1066 3 года назад

Not now Euan!! Back in your box!!

@TheSaneHatter 3 года назад

"Torc" is for pickup trucks.

@MrKarlGP 3 года назад

"Beads will get their own show" Ah... the venerable bead (sorry hehe) I bought a reproduction metal bead pendant from the Aarhus viking museum back in the 80s, with a simple double spiral pattern on its surface. I'm guessing maybe would've been worn over clothing, as it used to constantly bash me in the sternum, collar bone and throat like a pretty, vicious little demolition ball. Really glad to have found your channel, enjoying your enthusiasm, engaging delivery and wry BS debunking :)

@lisafish1449 2 года назад

I used to wear pewter beads at the ends of my braids for Celtic music festivals. I was a living flail weapon.

@zxyatiywariii8 2 года назад

@@lisafish1449 I've always wondered if those were as painful as they looked. . . and if you spun your head too fast, you could give yourself a black eye?

@sarahwatts7152 2 года назад

I love that the Welsh noises stayed in. 10/10

@mamacoloco7285 3 года назад

This just went from a terrible day to an awesome one.

@MuddyHuddy259 Год назад

I enjoy the humor and intellect that you put into every video. Thank you!

@brissygirl4997 3 года назад

Speaking of your love for all things tea. I follow a couple of channels from Azerbaijan that make all kinds of tea to go with a meal that is prepared during the video. They use all sorts of things from traditional black tea leaves, to clover, mint, basil (green, purple, blue), melissa (lemon balm) roses, fruit (rosehips etc). I think you'd find some good combo's to try. They also use a special tea contraption called a samovar, which I'd never seen or heard of until I discovered these channels. Think of an urn like they use at meeting halls and such that is filled with water and has a tap on the front. There is a special chamber inside the samovar where you put hot coals to heat the water, and a little chimney to allow smoke to escape as well as a place to put your teapot on top to brew your tea or keep it hot.

@ashleejones1690 3 года назад

Care to let us know what the channel names are? Sounds interesting. I know RU-vid won't let you post links but we could search the names ourselves🙂

@brissygirl4997 3 года назад

@@ashleejones1690 this is Country Life Vlog (it's an old video, but it should still work.) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0ZI8jQQYcQ0.html The other channel is called Samovar Tea ru-vid.com They are sister channels, I think the camera man is related to everyone in some fashion.

@martinbabb6683 Год назад

you are an absolute joy.. you make me chuckle and giggle and other things.. I love ya.

@lucie4185 3 года назад

All the shiny things!

@i_love_shiny_things 3 месяца назад

Ooo you've sparked something in my brain! Love history and Vikings have always fascinated me - I've just started metalsmithing, so this is definitely inspiring! 😊❤️

@eazy8579 3 года назад

Jimmy be rocking that ponytail look

@anniebell6846 3 года назад

There used to be a really amazing wire wrapping lady somewhere along the Royal Mile, she made exquisite bracelets.

@dismutased Год назад

Scrolling through vids looking to do some research on viking jewelry to make I didnt expect all this great info to come from a welsh guy 😂. My dad was Welsh. What a weird link back! Love your videos!

@Hardrada88 Год назад

Cant say i wore much bling..well, havnt during enactments. I do have two arm rings that ive worn daily for about 14 years (one was payment for some work I did in Norway, another was a gift from my brother in law) they are very thick and heavy silver youd struggle to cut them or bend them. And a thick silver 'twist' ring which was a gift from a lady in sweden who I helped out at this vikingr town/market. They travelled for work from market to market so i joined in for the adventure more than payment. Very interesting video and informative. You have me as a subscriber.

@eleanorbrasfield 3 года назад

I just wanted to tell you that I think you are very cool. That is all. Much thanks for your awesome videos.

@Kryptoid_ 3 года назад

I had a friend teach me how to wire weave chain like what you showed at 21:06, I don't know how to attach anything to the ends yet but it is time consuming for sure. And you have to be sure not to yank it accidentally because you can bend the wire and I don't even know if that is fixable.

@meamela9820 3 года назад

I got really exited when I realised that I have a ring that resembles one of the replicas you showed a picture of at 11:20. But mine is not that fancy, but I bet there were a lot of jewellery too in that period, that is like my ring, just something that one of my friends hastly made up for me by a small piece of metal wire. Just makes sense in my mind. And it also makes sense that the pendants were quite small. I have a modern necklace with a pendant that is 5 cm and it gets really heavy sometimes.

@christophermyers5169 2 года назад

thank you

@SarahSmith-pj6hy 3 года назад

@welshvicking please could you add subtitles to your video, so its accessible to more people. Thank you.

@elisabethm9655 3 года назад

On RU-vid pictures in the upper right is a symbol marked cc for closed captioning - it gives a rough subtitling - sometimes it’s hilarious , like when it transliterates Welsh into English…and the spelling is garbage. But it’s done via a computer system, so….🙄😁

@SomeoneBeginingWithI 3 года назад

@@elisabethm9655 Like you said, the computer generated captions are full of hilarious mistakes. They're funny if you're hearing, but not very useful if you actually need the captions. People asking for proper closed captions probably already know the auto-generated ones exist and are asking for proper captions because that would be better for them and others. Writing out proper closed captions is quite time consuming, so I understand that Jimmy might not have the time to do it himself or the money to pay a professional. I hope Jimmy's channel does well and he adds proper captions to his videos when that becomes possible for his channel.

@ragnkja 3 года назад

@@elisabethm9655 I don’t know if I’m representative of caption users, but I find computer generated ones so bad that I tend to turn them off. In other words, they’re _worse_ than no captions at all for me, because I struggle with “decoding” the sound, not hearing it in the first place. A second way of getting the words into my brain is helpful if it is accurate, but just makes things worse if it’s not.

@susanstohelit3114 2 года назад

Temple rings and pendants are still very much part of the folk clothing in the Balkans I think, but I can only guarantee for Bulgaria

@TheWelshViking 2 года назад

It's super cool to see material culture longevity like that

@susanstohelit3114 2 года назад

@@TheWelshViking Your videos are amazing, by the way. Thank you for educating us! 💚

@Angel_1394 2 года назад

Really interesting video. Have never really heard of the neck ring but very interesting. Love the random noises in the background and the fact that that doesn't get edited out. Definitely agree on the modern 'viking' jewelry being ridiculous.

@valkyrie1066 2 года назад

Yes. I need to know the difference between "Viking inspired" and "period". Don't want to spend time building kit based on designs that are undocumented. I use tablet woven trim; I want to ensure that the embellishments are on point and not fantasy oriented. thanks so much for your help!

@bacon5453 2 года назад

This was a really unique and interesting topic

@isolaviola 3 года назад

"Like a tory without a trust fund" and at that second i subscribed

@sharonlindsay7097 3 года назад

Your channel is one of my favourite

@TheWelshViking 3 года назад

Well thank you! That's a lovely compliment :)

@sharonlindsay7097 3 года назад

@@TheWelshViking your so polite and informative! Your very pleasant to listen to and I wish you had a podcast lol

@ah5721 Год назад

This is a nice rewatch now I wonder though .. did you ever do the bead video? 🤨.

@MonkeyWhoWouldBeKing 3 года назад

ooooh, Galloway Hoard at 14.20 saw it in the national museum last mnoth. it's so cool!

@anastasiabaima2424 2 года назад

Such a lovely video. Thank you for so much information.

@joejoelesh1197 3 года назад

Question: I have my mjolnir on a leather string around my neck. It is very comfortable, and I wear it 24/7. Jogging, weight lifting, in combat sports, and sleeping. Why wouldn't we think "Vikings" didn't do the same?

@TheWelshViking 3 года назад

I don't think we do, do we? I wear mine loads. They're subtle and lightweight!

@FlybyStardancer 3 года назад

lol “welsh noises” XD XD yay more jewelry!

@amychoi9482 2 года назад

YAYYYYYY

@Th3GreenMachine 3 года назад

*welsh noises*

@kabosustan2484 3 года назад

Damn 28k subs, I remember when you only got 5k views, your doing great 👍

@TheWelshViking 3 года назад

Thank yooooou! It's a little bit mad and incomprehensible!

@caspenbee 7 месяцев назад

Pleased to see what looks like wire wrapped replicas at 11:20. I can't forge my own rings but I sure can wire wrap them!

@ffotograffydd 2 года назад

When I searched ‘arm ring’ on the British Museum website it thought I meant alarm clock and I got pages of results for clocks! 😂😂😂

@SwedishSalmonbox 3 года назад

Have you heard about the new bronze age find outside of Allingsås in Sweden? Ca 50 pieces of Jewlery in very good condition! Im a bit confused about what "spiraled hooks" were used for...?

@lavendarcrash2941 3 года назад

I perhaps shouldn't listen to these videos during work. The laughter is getting me strange looks 😅

@bartvanschaik6323 3 года назад

Enjoyed this video. Can I ask you why the drawing of he fourth horseman isn't showing? Anyway, keep up the good work!

@animeviking3401 2 года назад

Where would you get an age-accurate jewelry/kit as a person interested in getting it? Like websites? I apologize if I might've missed it.

@button4631 3 года назад

I cannot wait for the buttons talk, if my name didn't give a clue I'm kind of a button fan.

@agypsycircle 3 года назад

I absolutely want to find a source for the amber pendants!

@Hannah-rx8fk 3 года назад

I appreciated the very careful pronunciation of finger ring😂

@Valdagast 9 месяцев назад

the problem with Celts is that they were all torc

@beaver6d9 3 года назад

Nothing says north America like "Get some!"

@ESPecialEntertainment 2 года назад

is there a difference between an arm ring and an oath ring? is there such thing as an oath ring?

@TheWelshViking 2 года назад

Eh, rings have been used to demonstrate promises for millennia, but the whole Norse Silver Oath Ring as a special thing is very much a modern idea not based in reality

@ESPecialEntertainment 2 года назад

so the arm ring as an oath ring isn't historically accurate?

@TheWelshViking 2 года назад

Not as a specific artefact. Arm rings, finger rings, blood sacrifices at an altar, any of the above. An "Oath Ring" is a neologism. Rings were certainly exchanged as tokens, but there's no special type.

@MonkeyWhoWouldBeKing 2 года назад

Arm rings seem really hard to get a decent replica / modern version of. anyone know where they can be bought?

@nikkia9506 3 года назад

Horses' teeth don't taste nice... Can't say I've sucked on a horse's tooth, so I'll take your word for that.

@ashleejones1690 3 года назад

I was also wondering about that particular comment😂

@henrystollenwerk5753 3 года назад

how do you know that horse teeth taste bad???? do you eat teeth?????????

@simonpidgeon949 2 года назад

💯👍👍

@bagginsone 3 года назад

so handsome

@deathbytouch4252 3 года назад

Maybe they had a lot of subtle jewelry because the average Norse person didn’t want to flash their wealth and get mugged

@aenorist2431 3 года назад

Literally the only reason for jewelry is to flash your wealth. Probably more like "this style is easier to maintain"

@jamesnave1249 2 года назад

Poor Grimfrost

@TheWelshViking 2 года назад

I mean... extremely wealthy GF.

@jamesnave1249 2 года назад

@@TheWelshViking what do you make of their clothing? They seem to tick a lot of your requirements for accuracy. Being an Australian I struggle to find good places to find accurate items

@CXonthefly 2 года назад

You don't want really thick silver on your skin when it's cold outside

@patrickgallagher3513 3 года назад

Do we know of jewellery making centres, or is it more likely that we are talking individual artisans? Not necessarily authentic but If you're bored with cleaning your bling before you wear it, clean it to within an inch of its life and lacquer it. The lacquer also protects any plating. A non gloss lacquer looks best in my experience.

@knittinghistory5430 3 года назад

I love the real "Welsh noises" instead of a cut or elevator music 😂

@ragnkja 3 года назад

Yet most of it was in English 😂

@bartolomeothesatyr 3 месяца назад

*_Me attempting to transcribe spoken Welsh:_* "More Welsh noises."

@mzalshevano6145 2 года назад

*welsh noises*

@TheYrthenarc 3 года назад

"It's hot today in Scotland." - says while wearing a wool sweater...

@Sandra-P.713 3 года назад

My first thought also🤣

@rainydaylady6596 3 года назад

Ditto. 🖖😊

@HyperionHelstrand 3 года назад

He's got to appeal to all the Lindybeige fans in one way or another.

@allisonarmtrong3891 3 года назад

THIS. Just peel off the jumper and you'll be fine. Or at least okay.

@loisfitzpatrick5585 3 года назад

Haha, yes!

@cuttwice3905 3 года назад

Idiom of the day: Sweating like a Tory without a trust fund.

@bonniehyden962 3 года назад

This Idiom is going to be fun to use out here in Deep East Texas. rofl

@michellecornum5856 3 года назад

@@bonniehyden962 Even better if it's said with a stereotypical Texas accent! XD

@bartolomeothesatyr 3 месяца назад

I'm definitely incorporating it into my Hoosier vernacular.

@GreenLarsen 3 года назад

The best Thors hammer is from Denmark and have a runic inscription that say "hammer" :D

@CollinMcLean 3 года назад

I've seen that and I love it because it just seems so sarcastic...

@polkadot8788 3 года назад

Someone needs to make one and carve in hammer time. 😆

@Amy_the_Lizard 3 года назад

Maybe the maker wasn't confident in it being recognizable as a hammer? I like to do what I call 'speed doodles' as a drawing excercises where I draw something on a time limit without references in ink so I can't erase anything if it doesn't look right, and most of the time I go back and label things with arrows before showing them to people so that A) they know that the weird thing around the guy's neck is supposed to be headphones, and B) that I am aware that that's not what headphones look like. So yeah, I'd probably write 'hammer' on a pendant I made if I wasn't confident that it actually looked like a hammer... Edit: I don't know why I typed "writing excercise" instead of "drawing excercises"...guess my brain is tired...

@CollinMcLean 3 года назад

@@Amy_the_Lizard It's actually a fairly intricate example of a mjolnir pendant www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2014/06/30/thors-hammer-found-on-lolland/

@TheSaneHatter 3 года назад

"Are you Thor, the God of Hammers?" "I guess: it says so right there."

@ghostfifth 3 года назад

I've been a goldsmith for about 14 years now and I'm getting into Scandinavian history, viking... looking to begin reproducing some of these designs. I find this stuff so freaking cool man. If you want anything handmade let me know!

@anthonyhayes1267 3 года назад

Well daggone, please tell me you have a website

@zxyatiywariii8 2 года назад

You should show some on video!

@magnusosmond1835 Год назад

Definitely make some Celtic torcs

@burningrivers0616 Год назад

I’m definitely interested

@CapriUni 3 года назад

The thought of a young Viking-age girl wearing a bear's tooth pendent has got me thinking two things: 1) People will always be people, and young girls will always love being badass in their own, weird way, and 2) I was immediately reminded of the Norwegian folktale (collected in the 19th C., but still) "East of the Sun, and West of the Moon," where a young girl is courted (given away to) a prince enchanted into the form of a white bear.

@zxyatiywariii8 2 года назад

That makes so much sense as a young girl's pendant! I literally have a pendant of two adjoined boars' tusks which I put together from found tusks when I was a teenager; not as something for reenactment (I'd never even heard of reenactments when I was a kid) but because it felt "badass" (especially because I was small for my age.)

@melissagoings1 3 года назад

The Welsh Noises were the best part. ROFL

@DanielleStJohn 3 года назад

YES GOOD CORRECT

@noexpensespentstudios 3 года назад

"Do you want to see my boar's tusk?" "Snorri, no!"

@cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647 3 года назад

you seen one tusk you've seen them all :D

@scouttyra 3 года назад

D'you know what Snorre (what Snorri usually is called in Swedish) is also a word for in Swedish? P*nis. A kind of childish name, but none the less.

@noexpensespentstudios 3 года назад

@@scouttyra I did not know that. Accidental puns are the best puns :D

@timothyissler3815 3 года назад

The extended period of *Welsh noises* *chaos and cacophony* "Oh I'm behind the chair" *loses balance* "OH SHI--!" *cut to test screen* Cinematic history right there. Close second is the Salvador Dali moment

@rachelboersma-plug9482 3 года назад

We do indeed subscribe to watch him fall over.

@Ekenaa 2 года назад

This video is simply iconic I've been sent down a rabbit hole by Abby Cox and binged a couple of videos from the channel but this one is it, I'm never leaving again

@margaretbarclay-laughton2086 3 года назад

Dammit buy I had managed to stop laughing and was just taking a swig of tea when you pointed out where the boars horn was now to go wipe the screen.

@tylersdog 3 года назад

Just a note: if you can claim it's 'hot' WHILE WEARING A WOOL SWEATER, it's a very different type of 'hot' to what we in Canada (well, parts of Canada) are suffering through. Thirty- four, with a humidex of 42 anyone? Sorry, that's not on 'jewelry' topic...but even the idea of a wool sweater makes me faint... Wonderful video though!

@lucie4185 3 года назад

It's been 34 and humid in southern UK today I was sweating in cotton and linen, wooly jumpers are mad!!🥵

@LadyNightshade 3 года назад

We hit over 40 and humid at one point this summer in some parts of Canada

@TheWelshViking 3 года назад

We do not remove our jumper whilst filming. This is the way.

@katecapek3116 3 года назад

@@TheWelshViking I seem to recall a shirtless moment or 2...

@permiebird937 3 года назад

I thought he might come back from the ring hunt without the jumper 😄

@joanelizabethhall9455 3 года назад

I will love you forever for saying that research should be part of our hobby!!

@Kayanrya 2 года назад

As an archaeology PhD student focusing on Islamic glass, I’m very excited for your bead video! I’m not well-versed in the glass/precious stones of Europe during this time (the most I know of is in connection to early medieval Islamic trade networks), so I can’t wait to see the examples from assemblages that you’ll show! Beads are lovely and little appreciated outside of academia. Thanks for a great channel and I’m excited for more of your research!

@courtneywalsh9780 10 месяцев назад

While you were mentioning that Bronze was a perfectly period metal for Viking age, I thought about a Viking Woman with Bronze Tortoise Broaches and how they would just shimmer and shine in Candle/Firelight in the long home. Ugh Gorgeous 😍😍

@bendorlinhg6180 3 года назад

😂 The search for the ring was epic.

@bridgetthewench 3 года назад

Not going to lie, that boar's tooth diagram had me thinking.... Butt plug? I'll leave 🤣

@cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647 3 года назад

@scouttyra 3 года назад

Well, modern morticians use a kind of buttplugg to prevent , ehm , stuff from leaking out

@bridgetthewench 3 года назад

@@scouttyra Very true! Makes one wonder.

@MsDeepAndDark 3 года назад

@@scouttyra that might confuse archaeologists of the future 😂

@aenorist2431 3 года назад

Sits in a wooly sweater, complains about heat. Never change :D

@snazzypazzy 3 года назад

So interesting! I was in the Frisian Museum in Leeuwarden last week and I loved their permanent history of Friesland exhibition. I think I bored my mom telling her all the background info, some of which I learned about here. (I was also telling her about all of the clothing stuff, learned from various costubers. There was an exhibition on embroidery going on that was a lot of fun.)

@lydianoack4552 Год назад

My favourite Viking Lady Shiny as a dressmaker are needle cases. The perfect practical bling for the proud needleworker.

@rachelboersma-plug9482 3 года назад

21:30 looks like a dummy holder - fasten the ring to a linen bag full of sweetened mashed grain and the pin to little Bjørn's woollen tunic so he can't throw it out of his Viking pram when he gets bored.

@thunderbeard1617 3 года назад

Just wanna say that your channel finally convinced me to start reenacting. I just ordered most of my kit and now I'm off to find a group to join.

@tetchedistress 3 года назад

Oh my, I want all the things.... Yes, I talk to my things as well, and have outbursts in strange ululations. Okay, that's the first time I have used that word in over 25 years. Not sure that is a good thing. Anyhow, Thank You for another lovely video my overseas friend I will never meet. Huge hugs! Nice sweater, by the way.

@januzzell8631 3 года назад

As much as I loved the main content and found it fascinating - I have to say that the off screen chaos was EVERYTHING ^*^ Much giggling!

@zxyatiywariii8 2 года назад

Ikr! I was giggling from the very beginning, when he was describing the little sausage-shaped dog leaving a 💩 in his yard 😂 Lots of dogs in our neighborhood, always leaving peemail for each other lol.

@elisabethm9655 3 года назад

What a lovely romp through the bling shop! Temple pendants are indeed still part of Eastern European women’s headdresses…in fact, stretching all over Asia, down to the Caucasus and as far as China in one design or another…and you’ll be delighted I’m sure to know that you’re farewell sign off cc’s in English as ‘oh well I’m a troll’…🤣🤪

@rachelboersma-plug9482 3 года назад

"Well, I'm a troll" cracks me up every time. Ornaments suspended at the temples are also part of some Dutch and Friesian women's folk dress - usually called "oorijzers" (literally "ear-irons").

@Amy_the_Lizard 3 года назад

@@rachelboersma-plug9482 Ooh! I'm a fantasy writer, and I'm always looking for subtle ways to keep everyone in my multi-species settings from wearing the same 'generic medieval fantasy person' clothes you see all over the genre, so I'll have to look into those more! ^_^

@rachelboersma-plug9482 3 года назад

@@Amy_the_Lizard Here's a basic 2-part overview (not academic, but well illustrated). One of my great-grandmothers came from the Scheveningen area and was still wearing oorijzers in the 1950s. Edit: whoops, forgot actual link: ateliernostalgia.wordpress.com/2016/09/27/oorijzers-ear-irons-part-1/

@stancalung5186 3 года назад

@@rachelboersma-plug9482 tank you very much for the link!!

@anglerfish4161 3 года назад

The cross with the dog head is really intriguing. I wonder what was the idea behind it. I got a chuckle out of the tooth pendants turning out to be associated with kids and women, not manly men who man like people think. Be careful, though, someone might take that boar's tusk image and think that's a suggestion on how to decorate their junk.

@rd6203 3 года назад

😞 if only I had junk

@CollinMcLean 3 года назад

It was found in Iceland, some hypothesize that it's possibly a sort of mixture of the Christian cross and the Norse Mjolnir pendant, with beast heads being a fairly popular motif in medieval Germanic and Scandinavian artwork my guess is that the jewelry smith probably just thought it looked cool or something like that. Sometimes an answer can be that simple, doesn't necessarily need to have special meaning or symbolism, sometimes people did something because they thought it looked cool. Some have pointed out however that the cross or cross like designs are found in Scandinavia before christianity gained a significant foothold. However the pendant itself was dated to sometime in the 10th century so I give more weight to the argument it's possibly a form of syncretism,

@zxyatiywariii8 2 года назад

@@CollinMcLean It's funny because that's something I'd love. . . even though I'm hundreds of years later and thousands of miles away and don't even have any Scandinavian heritage (although some of my family do). I'm Christian and I also love dogs, so it's such a cool way to meld both, and I wonder if it was made for someone as a gift, because the jewelery smith knew that person would find it especially meaningful?

@margaretbarclay-laughton2086 3 года назад

Jimmy you do know that swearing at inanimate objects is a sign of senility 🤣 In Scotland wearing a wooly jumper in summer is mandatory, we don't usually bother in winter unless a polar bear walks past wearing one then we might concede it is a trifle chilly. Hope the studying has gone well. An excellent informative video once I stopped laughing at your antics. Thanks fair cheared me up

@expatpiskie 3 года назад

Here in NE England t-shirts & shorts are worn year round. Except for me, 30 years away from Cornwall & I still miss being close to the gulf stream.

@samanthahayman4539 3 года назад

I have it on excellent authority that it's a point of pride among the New Zealand scientists stationed in Antarctica (over the summer) to wear walk shorts outside the base. And they celebrate midsummer by cutting a hole in the ice and going for a dip.

@BrotherJing1 3 года назад

If there isn't at least one Venerable Bede joke in your bead video I think you'll have to pack in this whole thing

@brassviking486 3 года назад

Ah yes, the venereal bede. Can't forget why he was cloistered away.

@anthonyhayes1267 3 года назад

Yay! Shiny things. Corvid brain happy

@angelcollina 7 месяцев назад

Inside you have two corvids, and they both like shinies!!

@DoinItforNewCommTech 3 года назад

Could the Mjolnir neck-rings be simpler than other styles of torc because of the religious connotations? I'm thinking of modern Christianity where worshippers are encouraged to be humble, and big gaudy, ostentatious displays of worship are generally seen as a bit tacky (if not disrespectful to the bloke upstairs). Could it be similar for the Norse, where Thor-worshippers tried to embody what they felt Thor himself would prefer to wear? The other (probably more obvious) answer could be because of the price. Thor worship came from all walks of life, and not everybody could afford a big braided neck-ring, but a lot of people could probably afford something simpler.

@domino3153 3 года назад

There is an incredibly beautiful ring in the National Museum of Ireland - Archaeology. Its in the Viking exhibition, and its the number 40 one. Its got a beautiful lavender-pinkish stone (maybe a precious stone, I'm not sure). I'm obsessed with how pretty it is.

@cadileigh9948 3 года назад

I've picked up that shade of amethyst on the beaches of Loch Torridon in Scotland and rose quartz on the South Welsh coast so probably cheaper to use the real thing than make glass

@domino3153 3 года назад

@@cadileigh9948 that's very interesting. The ring could have very possibly been made in Ireland, or at least in the vicinity, although, I have no way of proving that.

@zxyatiywariii8 2 года назад

Now I need to look that up. . . I love that shade!

@Lunareon 3 года назад

For some reason, this made me think of a dragon, which specializes in hoarding Viking jewellery. That would be an awesome hoard. Looking forward to the beads video!

@lynn858 3 года назад

Love the opportunistic jewellers mould. I’ve always kind of wondered about the meaning and emotion people imbue their religious jewelry with - when the reality is it’s a hunk of metal often manufactured commercially with as much give a crap as any other shape or symbol, and no loyalty to any particular belief system. I guess it’s whatever the wearer chooses to make of it.

@brassviking486 3 года назад

Exactly. The metal doesn't mind, it's a bit confused at the attention.

@dux_bellorum 3 года назад

🤣🤣🤣 like a Tory without a trust fund! So accurate!

@chrispe82 3 года назад

“Horse teeth, they don’t look good & they don’t taste good!” 😳 I want to hear the story behind this! Kievan Rus & Slavic wore temple rings, some Russian folk costumes have similar accessories. They also wore types of moon pendant (possibly on a string of beads around the neck) Also a slightly famous pendant you didn’t mention was the “Freya”, it’s an interesting find that one.

@jirup 3 года назад

Good to hear you are on the mend. I'm a hobby metal smith with an interest in historical jewellery styles, so I can't express how happy this video made me. I took more notes in the last 30 mins than I did in the jewellery portion of my art history undergrad. And many thanks for the source materials, I love a good reference list.

@crescentwalker 3 года назад

Synchronicity struck while I'm sitting here at my workbench making woven wire jewelry and you suddenly mention Viking woven wire. Huzzah! I nearly leaped off my chair.

@angelcollina 8 месяцев назад

I wanna get into jewelry making. … With all my FREE TIME!! *cries in working poor*

@beatrizperola7646 3 года назад

I love this type of jewellery, so simple but so so beautiful. I got a second hand arm ring and I always feel like a badass with it

@swinhelm389 3 года назад

That thumbnail reminded me of a dream I once had where a stained glass window was discovered in Iceland. It was from a pre-Christian temple and depicted the local goði with a giant arm ring behind his head as a halo. Apparently my subconscious isn't concerned much with historical accuracy

@permiebird937 3 года назад

I love making Norse wire weaving, though the price of silver wire has slowed me down a lot. I look forward to you making a video on it.

@anthonyhayes1267 2 года назад

I just started my first one today. I've noticed that it's got that great therapeutic feeling that other simple repetitive construction has.

@bonniehyden962 3 года назад

So. The ring my dearly, departed Father-In-Law made, as a young man, by braiding 3 pieces of copper wire together, laying them on the rail road tracks so the train could flatten them, then curving to fit his finger ... is Period Correct, yes? ...except I can't wear it because his fingers were SOO much larger than mine. And, as far as "Viking" Jewelry went ... if they liked it ... they took it and wore it and might have had others made. They weren't snobs. Yes?

@CopenhagenDreaming 3 года назад

"Especially to everyone who send me teeth..." That had me literally spit out my coffee! Then I realised you said tea, not teeth... Which is somewhat comforting, because it sounded a bit... Disturbing? Also, I'm kind of chuffed that you have the exact same Thor's hammer that I bought with my measly pocket money as a kid back in the 80s. Not because I wanted to be a reenactor or anything, but just because I thought it was really pretty and also... Danish kids are FORCE FED viking age in history lessons in school, or at least they were in the 80s. (And not always, might I add, in a way that would today be considered historically accurate or politically correct.)

@ragnkja 3 года назад

My hypothesis for why tooth pendants were mostly worn by children is that they were associated with teething or tooth health.

@oldmanofthemountains3388 3 года назад

That amber axe head pendant looks really cool! I'm sure it was beautiful when it was first made!

@azteclady 3 года назад

So glad to know that you are feeling better! That's really the best news.

@loisfitzpatrick5585 3 года назад

I thought you wear a claddagh ring, didn’t realise it was a skull!! 😂

@RaptureScore 3 года назад

As a smith, I can confirm that bronze is a very nice material and can look good on rings. There's no shame in buying bronze jewelry.

@zxyatiywariii8 2 года назад

It's also strong! My favorite and most valuable pendant is one which I only wear on a bronze chain; because it's gold, and I don't want to lose it. When the bronze is kept polished, it looks almost like the (14k) gold too, but it's much more durable.