Finnish Beast Drop Earrings Petal Fall This interlaced pattern echoes Viking-era

This interlaced pattern echoes Viking-era carvings on an intricate rune stone found in Sjusta

was the inspiration for these designs

One of Orkney's beautiful northern isles

not least for being home to the famous Westray Wife figurine

Hundreds of graceful swans make their homes round the shores of Stenness and Brodgar lochs

Finnish Beast Drop Earrings Petal Fall This interlaced pattern echoes Viking-eraFinnish 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