Jelling style

Formation

Characterization

  • Figures, that is, people and animal representations
  • Illustrations of plants ( vines, leaves )
  • Geometric figures (circles, triangles, triskel, spirals ).

The Jelling style focuses primarily on animal figures, which are displayed in an especially narrow and elongated. The ribbon-shaped, equal-width characters usually squirm S-shaped and are always shown in profile. During the turns in the eastern Scandinavia appear curled more, they are more stretched in the western area of ​​distribution. The body of the animal is decorated with a kind of conductor pattern or pearl-like. Compared to the stocky figure representations of the preceding styles ( Oseberg style, Borre style ), these figures show a novelty represents a further characteristic of the Jelling Sils, the legs Spirals: The approaches of animal legs are starting spirally rolled up from the leg. Characteristic are also neck tufts: go from the neck of the animal more or less long and winding braids from. In addition, the head of the animals is shown with its mouth open and a typical for the Jelling style bead on the upper lip. Several occasions this bead is also interpreted as a nostril. The thinner tendril-like ornaments such as neck tuft or minor side figures are provided along its length with a center band. Particularly is the Jelling style was in the UK and the Isle of Man, where several runic crosses are designed in this style.

Strip-type animals of the Jelling style. The three asymmetrically distributed squiggle of the neck tuft of the upper animal reminiscent of the shape of the left wing of the moms - bird. Silver clasp, locality Skaill, Orkney, UK.

Pair of animals on a trailer in Jelling style with its typical characteristics. The gripping claws, however, point to role models from the series of older gripping beast styles. Gold Plated Silver. Locality Vårby, Södermanland, Sweden.

Example finds

  • Denmark Silver cup from the royal grave in Jelling, Danmarks National Museum, Copenhagen
  • Kummetbeschläge of Moms, gilded copper alloy with niello silver sheet deposits, Jutland, Danmarks National Museum, Copenhagen
  • Pferdejoch of Søllested, Lolland,
  • Oval brooch from bronze by Morberg, Buskerud, Universitetets Oldsaksamling, Oslo
  • Round Brooch, Tråen, Buskerud,
  • Silver fibula from Ödeshög, Östergötland,
  • Tongue -shaped brooch of bronze, Birka, Uppland,
  • Trailer from the Vårby treasure, silver gilt, Vårby, Södermanland, Statens Historisk Museum, Stockholm
  • Bronze pendant from the treasury of Gnezdowo, Smolensk, Russia, Gosudarstvennyj Ermitaž, St. Petersburg
  • Schwertortband, copper alloy, Coppergate, York, Great Britain, The Yorkshire Museum
  • Schwertortband bronze Astala, Satakunta, Finland, Finlands National Museum
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