temple ring

Temple rings were characteristic decorations of Slavic women.

In later fashion styles, a temple ring was replaced by the kolt hanging from a ryasna.

The weary Therons who had gathered in the temple ring of blackened stumps dragged themselves off to rest.

Temple rings were most popular between the 8th and 12th centuries, possibly influenced by the Arab and Byzantine cultures.

Glúmr swears an ambiguous oath on the temple ring, first in the local temple of Freyr.

Temple rings (temporal rings) were part of Slavic, Scandinavian and others' medieval women's dress.

A temple ring may also refer to an altar ring used in rites at a temple in Germanic paganism.

The earliest archeological evidence of temple rings was found in the Catacomb culture, Unetice culture and Karasuk culture.

Inside the gate, they walked beside the weatherbeaten Temple Ring rampart for more than a hundred meters, from pool to pool of puddled, pale lamplight.

Hinn almáttki áss (the almighty áss "god") is an unknown Norse divinity evoked in an Icelandic legal oath sworn on a temple ring.

Besides the pendants, rings, torques, armlets, fibulas, necklaces and other such jewellery, which had been common to all nations, Slavs had original jewellery - silver armlets of a distinctive Kiev type, temple rings, enameled kolts and diadems.

The most conspicuous part of costume of peasant women of the pre-Mongol period was the headdress (venets for maidens and kika for married women), and also its ornaments - temple rings, whose form could be used to identify the origin of its owner.