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Cockerel brooch, copper alloy, 45 mm, 9th-10th century, found near Bawtry, Nottinghamshire (within the Danelaw).

This one has a complete pin preserved.

Recorded in UK detector finds database, October 28th 2013. UKDFD 43505.

A cockerel, Gullinkambi ("golden comb"), resident in Valhalla is, in Norse mythology, one of the three cockerels who crow to announce the beginning of Ragnarok.

"Crowed o'er the Æsir Gullinkambi,
which wakens heroes with the sire of hosts;
but another crows beneath the earth, a soot-red cock,
in the halls of Hel."

Thorpe, Benjamin (Trans.) (1866). Edda Sæmundar Hinns Frôða: The Edda of Sæmund the Learned. Part I. London: Trübner & Co.


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