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Unique sword casts new light on Viking voyages across the North Sea
- pwason 4y agoBut, is it magic?
- WalterBright 4y agoIt may have been a scimitar lobbed by some moistened bint.
- bergenty 4y agobints stay at home in the kitchen
- NegativeLatency 4y agoThe page wont load for me so: https://web.archive.org/web/20220719051909/https://phys.org/news/2022-07-unique-sword-viking-voyages-north.html https://web.archive.org/web/20220719051909/https://phys.org/...
- WalterBright 4y agoThe article remarks on how it would have been a very heavy sword. This suggests to me it was a ceremonial sword, as a too-heavy fighting sword just means you're going to die. Or maybe the missing blade is just stuck in a stone somewhere.
- wrp 4y agoBut, since the blade is missing, we don't know how big it actually was. It's funny to me that they have just a handle but they keep calling it a "sword". By the way, didn't Beowulf bring back just a handle after the fight with Grendel's mother? Maybe he started a fashion. :-)