Valknut Norse Wolf Necklace (Steel)

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Where Norse mythology actually comes fromWorth knowing before wearing it, and it makes the whole thing more interesting rather than less.The Vikings left very little writing. What we have is mostly Icelandic, mostly from the thirteenth century, and much of it was assembled by one man: Snorri Sturluson, a wealthy Christian politician working more than two hundred years after Iceland converted.He was writing partly to preserve the old poetry and partly as a handbook so poets could still understand the references. He was not a believer recording his own religion.What that meansIt does not make the myths fake. It does mean they reach us through a filter: organised, tidied, occasionally reshaped by a medieval Christian's sense of how a story should go.Where the older poems survive alongside Snorri's versions, they are sometimes stranger and less coherent, which is generally how real religions look from the inside.So a Norse pendant is a link to something genuinely old and genuinely fragmentary. The honest version is better than the confident one.The pieceThe design gathers Odin's household onto one disc. Two wolves in profile, mirrored so their muzzles push out past the lower rim, two ravens standing between them, and a spear driven down through the centre with a short line of runes beside the point. The valknut sits at the middle, three triangles locked together, and the same knot is cut into the bail above.Stainless steel, so it takes daily wear without tarnishing.Our article on Fenrir covers the wolf's part. See wolf jewelry.Free worldwide shipping, 7 to 12 business days. 30 day returns. See our shipping policy for details. Show more