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Åker Buckle from Åker, Vang, Hedmark, Norway bronze, silver with gilding and niello, copper, and garnet 11 cm long (4.3 inches) buckle for sword belt, second half of fifth century to around 600 Oslo Historical Museum C4901 full mustached man whose legs become boars man's head setting below man, showing patterned foil birds of prey; possible crown visible above man's head garnet inlay over patterned foil birds' heads