Wolf Viking Axe Pendant (Steel)

The axe was the ordinary weapon

Films give every Viking a sword. Most of them never owned one.

A pattern-welded sword was months of a skilled smith's work and cost roughly what a small herd of cattle did. It was inherited, named, and buried with people who mattered. An ordinary farmer was never going to have one.

An axe he already had. It split his firewood, and it worked perfectly well against a man. Axes are by far the most common weapon recovered from Viking-age graves, and that is not because they were prized above swords. It is because that is what people had.

Which makes it the better symbol

There is something more honest about it. The axe is the tool that became a weapon when it had to be, carried by people who spent most of the year farming.

The sword is the aristocrat's object. The axe belonged to everyone else, which is most of us.

The piece

A double axe head, two mirrored blades hanging either side of the chain, with a round medallion suspended in front of them carrying a wolf's face seen head on inside a studded rim. A rune is cut at the shoulder of each blade, and the recessed panels below them hold a bird with its wings spread on one side and a wolf walking in profile on the other. Cutting edges left bright and polished, the panels behind them darkened and stippled so the relief reads.

Stainless steel in a golden or silver tone, so it takes daily wear, sweat and showering without tarnishing.

Our article on the Norse wolf covers the mythology. See the wolf jewelry range.

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