Finnish Beast Small Brooch Metal:Silver as if to guard against

as if to guard against intruders from Sanday and the Orkney mainland

Ola's runes spell 'Orkney

Inspiration for this collection comes from a small but beautiful island in the far north of the Orkney archipelago

Few periods have equalled the Tudor taste for sumptuous decoration

Its name evokes the prevailing wind of the Mediterranean – the Mistral

Finnish Beast Small Brooch Metal:Silver as if to guard againstFinnish Beast recalls the golden age of the Viking culture, and the powerful and mysterious mythology of our ancestors. In 1968, a bronze and iron sword with an intricately carved hilt was found in a Viking grave in Suontaka, west of Helsinki. Ola studied the beasts head, and the interweaving lines that surrounded it, and, after many hours of drawing, came up with the final designs. She called the collection Finnish Beast for no one is sure whether