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Brooches - Viking Paired Styles

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/* Oval brooches [V/F] */
|Literature =
*"Each woman wears on either breast a box of iron, silver, copper or gold; the value of the box indicates the wealth of the husband. Each box has a ring from which depends a knife". Ibn Fadlan's Account of the Rus.
|Archaeology =
An estimated 4000 are known from all over the Viking world (OWEN and DALLAND 1999, p.68).
|Discussion =
An estimated 4000 are known from all over the Viking world (OWEN and DALLAND 1999, p.68).<br>
Disappear in Denmark during the C10th (ROESDAHL 1982)
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