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Hunters Find Striking Viking Sword Isolated at High Altitude in Norway 2017-09-16 03:30:33 Post No. 3391379
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Hunters Find Striking Viking Sword Isolated at High Altitude in Norway
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2017-09-16 03:30:33
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Four friends were slowly making their way across the high altitude rocky terrain while hunting reindeer in Oppland, Norway. One noticed a rusty object sticking out of the rocks. Curiosity took over and he sped up to reach the spot, where he soon found himself in front of an impressive-looking sword. After releasing the sword from its rocky hold, the friends decided that it didn’t look like anything modern, so they headed back down the mountain with their treasure to consult a local archaeologist. That archaeologist, and also another in Dagbladet, confirmed that the sword wasn’t made recently. In fact, archaeologist Espen Finstad told Dagbladet news that the sword was a Viking Age relic created in the 900s AD.
Finstad is also the chief editor of Secrets of the Ice , a group of glacier archaeologists working in the same region where the Viking Age sword was found. Realizing the importance to return quickly to the site, the Secrets of the Ice team spoke with the Museum of Cultural History and the National Park authorities. In their report on the Viking Age sword , Secrets of the Ice described the context in which the sword was found: “The find spot is in a scree-covered area with traces of permafrost movement, situated at 1640 m [5380 ft.] above sea level. Einar Åmbakk told us that the sword was lying with the hilt down between the stones and half of the blade sticking out. He had seen the blade and pulled it out. Only then did he understand that he had found a sword.”
They go on to write that the sword was probably found in its original position, or had perhaps slid between the stones; it’s unlikely that permafrost movement of the stones had pushed it to the surface.
Secrets of the Ice wrote, “The preservation is probably due to a combination of the quality of the iron, the high altitude and the mostly cold conditions. For most of the year, the find spot would have been frozen over and covered in snow.”
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The group surveyed and used a metal detector to cover an area of 20 meters (65 ft.) around the sword’s discovery location. No indications of human remains, the sword grip cover of bone, wood or leather (which would have not been preserved in those conditions anyway), nor any other artifacts were found. Thus, there is a mysterious air about the sword and how it came to be left in such a desolate location.
Secrets of the Ice suggest a possible, though still curious, explanation: “This could suggest that the person who left behind the sword was lost, maybe in a snow blizzard. It seems likely that the sword belonged to a Viking who died on the mountain, perhaps from exposure. However, if that is indeed the case, was he traveling in the high mountains with only his sword? It is a bit of a mystery… As it is now, his remains are long gone, and only the sword bears witness to the drama that happened here more than one thousand years ago.”
http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/hunters-find-striking-viking-sword-isolated-high-altitude-norway-008760
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>>3391382
Or the hunter is a fucking liar about where he found it.
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>>3391382
could it not have been left on the mountain as an offering to the gods?
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>>3391479
You're supposed to leave them food or wealth, what the fuck are gods going to do with a sword?
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>>3391379
>sticking out of the rocks
has king arthur reincreated?
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>>3391931
Admire its craftsmanship? Show it off to other Gods?
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if you find viking, or really any pre modern relics in Sweden. You might as well keep them your self.
document where and how you found it. Then take proper preservation steps. then hand over your findings to the local university. then just keep the relics for your personal collection.
If you give it to the swedish government. they will just throw it all in the scrap metal recycling bin. they supposedly don't have any money to preserve their history. so great great great great great great great great grand father Olaf's sword is going to get turned into rebar for a refugee housing project.
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>>3391963
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOYYY VEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY HOW RACIST OF YOU DIRTY GOYIM
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>>3391379
seems somewhat common
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/1000-year-old-viking-sword-unearthed-hunters-iceland-a7231866.html
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>>3391931
>swords aren't wealth
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>not keeping it for yourself
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Looks well preserved for something that old.
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