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There were two traditions of penannular brooches in the Viking Age. The first coming out of Ireland and adopted by areas inhabited by Norwegian Vikings. This style includes the large silver thistle brooches. The second is from the Baltic and differs in style [GRAHAM-CAMPBELL 1980:p.30]<br>
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==Irish Styles==
===Psudo-PennanularsIrish style Ball terminals (Thistle brooches)===Large ornate silver pennanular brooches with thistle shaped terminals <br><gallery heights=170px mode="Packed-hover" style="text-align: left;">Thistle brooch BM 1909,0624.2.jpgEigg 2 Penannular (Macpherson 1878).JPG|EiggThistle Penannular - Ireland, Co. Antrim (Arch. Jnl. 1849).JPGThistle Penannular - England, Westmorland (Arch. Jnl. 1849).JPGThistle Brooch - Skaill 1 (Anderson 1874).JPGThistle Brooch - Skaill 2 (Anderson 1874).JPGThistle Brooch - Skaill 3 (Anderson 1874).JPG</gallery>
===Irish style penannulars===
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Penannular Rogart, Scotland.jpg
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===Irish style Psudo-Pennanulars===
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Penannular BM 1888,0719.101.jpg
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==Baltic Styles==
94 graves in Birka, 61 are men, 22 are women, 11 unknown [ARWIDSSON 1984:p.19-20]. Larger ones are generally men, smaller ones more likely women. Small silver with turned up ends are generally from women’s graves.<br>
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Thalin has put forward the hypothesis that the large penannulars with animal heads, face masks and a faceted terminal (bj.855) are seem to have a connection to swords found in the graves. It suggests that the penannular might be part of the swords hanging arrangement. [ARWIDSSON 1984:p.21]<br>
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[ARWIDSSON 1984:p.16-19]
===Rolled terminals===
Eastern influence [ARWIDSSON 1984: p.23]
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Penannular Hedeby, Denmark.jpg
Hedeby Pennanular Grave 228.JPG|Hedeby
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===Faceted terminals===
Eastern
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===Capped terminals===
Bj712a, 713, 752b, 949, 523, 974
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===Animal heads===
===Face masks===
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===Closed - Annular brooch===
715, 946, 775. 2 iron, 1 silver
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===Other===
