The practice of placing swords upright in graves represents a powerful symbolic gesture. Unlike the more common Viking Age practice of ritually breaking or bending weapons before burial, these ...

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For Viking warriors, swords were not only deadly weapons, but a symbol of power. A unique example with gold details and a mysterious inscription has been unearthed in southern Norway. Experts believe ...

A 1,000-year-old perfectly preserved Viking sword has been found by archaeologists at the historic site of the former Beamish and Crawford brewery in Cork City. The wooden weaver’s sword is a little ...

A family doing construction on their house in Setesdal uncovered a 1,100-year-old sword from a pair of elaborate Viking graves, archaeologists said. Photo from the Agder County Municipality’s ...

An 8-year-old Swedish girl swimming in a lake pulled out what she thought was a stick from the bottom — only to find out it was actually an ancient, pre-Viking sword. “I was outside in the water, ...

Saga Vanecek, 8, was helping her father with his boat in the Vidostern lake when she stepped on an 85-centimeter (34-inch) sword in a holster made of wood and leather. The sword is believed to be ...

An eight-year-old girl pulled a pre-Viking-era sword from a lake in Sweden, in a tale reminiscent to the lore of King Arthur and Lady of the Lake. Swedish-American Saga Vanecek found the relic during ...