Door 19
19 Dec. 2018
Amethyst Viking Copper Knit Pendant
Behind door #19 there's a beautiful transparent purple Amethyst pendant. The stone is uncut and tumbled, and complimented by the ancient knitting pattern handmade of 0.4 mm copper wire. The pendant comes with a two strands black leather necklace, connected with a lobster clasp. A small faceted clear crystal bead is attached to the 5 cm / 2" extender.
Length pendant: 4.5 cm / 1.77"
Length necklace: 52 cm / 20.4"
Purple Amethyst has been highly esteemed throughout the ages for its stunning beauty and legendary powers to stimulate, and soothe, the mind and emotions. It is a semi-precious stone in today’s classifications, but to the ancients it was a “Gem of Fire,” a Precious Stone worth, at times in history, as much as a Diamond.
Shipping costs are calculated from both the size of the package and its weight.
The costs for shipping this item with standard priority mail (covered by the winner) is:
Within Norway: 26,- NOK
To Europe: 32,- NOK
To the rest of the world: 39,- NOK
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The Pegan Mistletoe
The Mistletoe holds a special place in myths, magic and traditions. It is often associated with romance and celebration of Christmas, but also plays a fatal role in the Norse mythology.
In the Gylfaginning we can read that the god Balder has dreadful dreams about his life. In hope of saving his son from a terrible fate, Frigg made all trees and plants assures that they would not - neither alive nor dead - harm him. Except for the mistletoe, which she thought was too young, too small and too harmless to be held to an oath.
Æsene (the gods) had fun with Balders newborn immortality by shooting at him with arrows. Loke, who envies the attention Balder receives, gives Hod - Balder's blind brother - an arrow made of the only plant that had not made the oath. Hod hits Balder, and pierced with the mistletoe, Balder the good fell over dead.
Balder's brother Hermod borrowed Odins horse and set off to Hel to persuade the god of Death to let Balder come back to Åsgård. Hel agreed on one condition: that all living and dead creatures in this world had to cry for Balder. And everyone cried - except the gygre (Jotne woman) Tokk, who announced that she would only cry dry tears for him. It was said that this was Loke in disguise fulfilling his revenge.
There's a more romantic and happy ending to this myth:
Frigg, the goddess of Love and Fate, cries for Balder and when the tears hit Balder they become small white berries and Balder wakes up from Hel's realm of death. Frigg gets so thankful that she put the white berries on to the mistletoe and blesses it so that everyone ever standing under it would get a kiss. So get a twig of mistletoe and hang it up. You might get a kiss blessed by the goddess of Love!
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