“she took out of her shirt a large necklace of beads, and put it round his neck over his shirt.[[225]]
“Thorbjörn ran at Bardi and struck his neck; a very loud crash was heard; the blow hit the bead in the necklace, which had moved when Bardi gave his knife to Njal’s son. The bead burst asunder, and blood gushed out on both sides of the necklace, but Bardi was not wounded. Thorbjörn said: ‘Thou art a tröll, as irons bite thee not’” (Viga-Styr and Heidarviga, c. 23).
Towards the later centuries of the Viking period the brooches, fibulæ, &c., become coarse and heavy.
Fig. 1256.—Fibula of bronze, ornamented with gold and silver.
Fig. 1257.—Fibula of bronze, ⅔ real size.—Zeeland, Denmark.
Fig. 1258.—Fibula of bronze, ⅔ real size.—Bjornhofda, Öland.
