700-1100 AD, Viking Age. A heavy bronze twisted bracelet comprising several strands of bronze woven together with looped terminals meant evoke the form of a snake. In Norse mythology, Jormungand (pronounced “YOUR-mun-gand;” Old Norse Jörmungandr, “Great Beast”), also called the “Midgard Serpent,” is a snake or dragon who lives in the ocean that surrounds Midgard, the visible world. He was so enormous that his body forms a circle around the entirety of Midgard. He is one of the three children of Loki and the giantess Angrboda, along with Hel and Fenrir. Good condition; Size: L:55mm / W:70mm ; 29.3g; Provenance: Property of a London gallery, previously in old British collection formed in the 1980s.