Aska Pendant, Hagebyhoga (Swedish History Museum, Stockholm)

A silver pendant found in a Viking Age grave at the farm Aska in Hagebyhoga parish, Ostergotland, Sweden, and held by the Swedish History Museum in Stockholm under accession number SHM 16429. The pendant represents a standing woman wearing a broad necklace around her neck, dated to around 1000 CE. Scholars have connected the necklace shown to Brisingamen, the great necklace Norse mythology gives to Freyja, and on that basis the pendant is widely read as an image of the goddess herself, one of the clearer candidates among the small surviving body of figural Viking Age metalwork for a named deity rather than a generic female figure.