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Sword Scabbard Chapes

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== English Styles ==
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== Borre Style 1 ==
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875-950AD<br>
Odin as shape-shifting sorcerer and shaman. Protection. [HEDENSTIERNA-JONSON 2006b:p.321]
== Borre Style 2 ==
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9th/10th Century
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== Borre Style 3 ==
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Paulsen's 'Valleberga' type
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== Jelling ==
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More usually found around the Baltic area. [GRAHAM-CAMPBELL 1980: cat.273.]. 19 examples found in 6 different countries (Denmark, Germany, Iceland, England, Sweden & Russia) [CITE V2C?].
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== Bird (Falcon) style ==
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Otherwise known as the 'Birka Bird'. Paulsen's type 'Scandinavian-Varangian'. Dated from late C9th to early C11th although at its most popular in the first half of the C10th. Hedenstierna Jonson identifies 67 finds spread mainly in Eastern Europe from Sweden to Byzantium [HEDENSTIERNA-JONSON 2006b:p.]
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