Irminsul (Pendant from Horn)

Irminsul hand-engraved on water buffalo horn and painted with silver paint. The material is very light.
Size: width 30mm, length 50mm | German handwork

The Irminsul, a main symbol of God of old Saxony. To Eresburg, now city of Bergen on the Dimel to the famous column have stood before it was destroyed at the beginning of the 772 Saxon Wars of Charlemagne. After Witekind there should have been a free-standing, huge tree with the free Saxons had strength, courage and victory connected the symbol of the god of war and the World Ash.