A fisherman discovered a remarkably well-preserved Medieval sword, possibly from a secret order, at the bottom of the Vistula ...

A Viking weaver's sword dating from the 11th century was among several significant Viking artifacts unearthed in Cork City excavations, at the Beamish Brewery, in 2017. The wooden Viking sword was ...

Discovering The Viking Sword On A Farm. On May 27, 2024, Øyvind Tveitane Lovra and his son were cleaning up a field on their farm in Suldal, Norway, to prepare it for plowing when Lovra picked up ...

Along with Jo-Simon Frøshaug Stokke from the Museum of Cultural History in Oslo, Wintervoll arrived at the site and was able to confirm the identity of the sword. "We think it is from the Viking ...

Research is underway to learn more about the origins of medieval sword found earlier this month at the bottom of a Polish river, which some experts believe may have belonged to the Vikings. The ...

A 10th-century Viking sword fragment was discovered by a metal detectorist scouring a field in the Netherlands. Further research is being done to find out more about the ancient item.

He noted that up to 4,000 swords from the Viking Age have been found throughout Europe, but only about 170 — 45 from Norway — have Ulfberht inscriptions. "We are not aware of similar swords ...

The markings don’t stop there: on one side, the sword a circle with an X layered inside, known as a sun wheel or sonnenrad.

Nordic Vikings Owned Way Too Many Swords, Study Finds Compared with their Danish neighbors, the Nordic Vikings were exceedingly violent. The Walküren (Valkyrien), 1864, found in the Collection of ...

History books typically depict Vikings as blue-eyed, blonde-haired, burly men sailing the North Atlantic coast to pillage wherever they set foot on land.While some of that may be true, a new ...