INCLUDES
Pendant and necklace chain in a velvet drawstring bag.
You can also purchase just the pendant alone, it will come with a hanging bail to use on your own cord or chain.
MEASUREMENTS
The charm is about 1" tall x 1/2" wide x .039" thick (28x13x1mm)
The necklace chain is offered in your choice of length from 16" to 50" (40cm to 127cm)
MATERIALS
The pendant, necklace chain and all component are made of pure 304 stainless steel. Stainless steel is non-tarnishing, non-allergenic, shiny, strong and durable.
ABOUT
The Berserker Rune is intended to help you unleash your inner
warrior. In history, the Viking Berserkers were warriors. They fought
ruthlessly and fearlessly. In the Old Norse written legends, berserkers
were said to have fought in a trance-like state, a characteristic which
later gave rise to the modern English word berserk (meaning "furiously
violent or out of control"). Berserkers are attested to in numerous Old
Norse sources. Berserkers appear prominently in a multitude of other
sagas and poems. Many earlier sagas portrayed berserkers as bodyguards,
elite soldiers, and champions of kings. Within the sagas, Berserkers can
be narrowed down to four different types. The King's Berserkr, the
Hall-Challenging Berserkr, the Hólmgangumaðr, and the Viking Berserkr.
Later, by Christian interpreters, the berserker was viewed as a "heathen
devil". King Harald Fairhair's used berserkers as "shock troops" to
broaden his sphere of influence. Other Scandinavian kings used
berserkers as part of their army of hirdmen and sometimes ranked them as
equivalent to a royal bodyguard. In modern tiomes, the berserker is
often used in different forms of media as an archetype, such as in video
games, others feature an enemy with the females named berserkers. The
Old Norse form of the word was berserkr, which literally meant
"bear-shirt", "someone who wears a coat made out of a bear's skin".
Today the Danish guard wears bearskin hats as a symbol of the original
berserkers.