Men and women loved to adorn themselves with jewels 

 and objects of gold ;* the oinaments for both sexes seem 

 to have been somewhat similar ; rings, bracelets, fibulae 

 (used to fasten together on to the right shoulder the ends of 



Fig. 1255. Buckle of a belt in silver and bronze, ornamented with garnets enchasse's. 

 Heal size. Earlier iron age. Norway. 



cloaks), brooches, clasps and buckles, pins, hooks, pendants 

 round the neck, bracteates, diadems, necklaces, beads of silver, 



1 Among the objects made of gold 

 were spurs, see Vo'lsunga Saga, c. 27 ; 

 gold chairs, Hrolf Kraki's Snga, c. 18; 

 gold chests, Foromanna Sb'gur, vii. ; gold 

 horse-shoes, Fornmanna Sb'gur, vii. ; gold 

 dog-collars, Gautrek's Saga, c. 9 ; gold 



ring-coats of mail, Sigurdarkvida, iii. ; 

 gold tablets, Orvar Odd's Saga, c. 26; 

 cows' horns occasionally seem to have 

 been covered with gold, as we see from 

 Thrymskvida, st. 23, Helgakvida Hjor- 

 vardbsonar. 



