SCANDINAVIA. Anglo-Danish. Bronze stirrup mount. 9th-10th centuries AD. (5.6 mm). With two piercings at finial and the back of the mount. On the large face of the mount, a wolf announces the coming of Ragnarök. Dark gray and brown patina, minor roughness, traces of earthen deposits, a couple of scrapes on the reverse. Website shipping rates do not apply.
From the Rolling Hill Collection of Viking Artefacts.
In Norse mythology Ragnarök is the cataclysmic destruction of the cosmos and everything in it–even the gods.