windan

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windan, str.v: to fly, leap, start, spring, wheel; to twist, roll; to brandish, wave; to twist, plait, weave, give a curved form to. (WIN-dahn / ˈwɪn-dan)

A band that would spiral 2.5 times around one’s finger, decorated with a design of lines and dots etched into the metal.
Silver spiral finger ring, found in grave 18 during excavations at an early medieval cemetery at Butler’s Field, Lechlade, Gloucestershire, England; Corinium Museum 1997/25/18/19. [coriniummuseum.org]