Man finds 3,000-year-old sword

United Press International ^ | Friday the 13th of November 2009 | unattributed

[SunkenCiv]

A Norwegian man said experts told him the sword he found abandoned at a roadside four years ago dates back 3,000 years.

Ernst Skofteland said he asked a team of archaeologists digging on a farm near his home to look at the sword, which he discovered at the side of a lumber road in a forest area four years ago, and they told him it dates from around 1100-900 B.C., Aftenposten reported Friday.

"When they told me how old it was, I thought they were kidding me," Skofteland said. He said he turned the sword over to government authorities for study.

Experts said about 20 similar swords have been discovered in Norway.

[SunkenCiv]

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[BlueStateBlues]

I’ve got mine, pulled it from a boulder in England, seems like everyone had tried to pull it out of the rock forever, they must have loosened it.

[max americana]

I wonder if the dude said ‘I AM THE POWEEEERRRR..”

[caver]

Do you wear Excalibur cologne?

[JoeProBono]

From my kitchen

[colorado tanker]

Conan's Father: The secret of steel has always carried with it a mystery. You must learn its riddle, Conan. You must learn its discipline. For no one - no one in this world can you trust. Not men, not women, not beasts.
[Points to sword]
Conan's Father: This you can trust.

[ErnBatavia]

I'm still ticked off.....wifey and I took a month long driving trip thru the entire lower third of this country in May/June......took my cheapie metal dectector in the hopes that our wanderings might take us to some Civil War digs.

We got to Jackson, TN and checked into some motel near the Casey Jones Museum and found a Chamber of Commerce brochure touting a nearby battleground - "Salem Cemetery"!..complete with map to the site.

We saddled up and drove the 45 minutes and found that the C.C. brochure was a little "off".......the site aforementioned was the home of the local historian (and nobody was there). We left emptyhanded. Damn, damn, damn.....

[esquirette]

Next time don’t use the dishwasher.

[Free Vulcan]

There can be only one...

[doc1019]

My liege … were have you been lo these many centuries? ;-)

[Ramius]

Sword Ping!

3,000 years is a really, really old one.

[mysterio]

Wish they would have included a photo of the sword. That’s pretty neat.

[BlueStateBlues]

Sometimes a sword is just a sword. Now I’m going out to fight the damn helots.

[doc1019]

LOL!

[MaxMax]

[bigheadfred]

I think it was Sitchin that suggested in one of his books that the legend of King Arthur was handed down from much earlier and referred to the person or people that brought the secret of metallurgy to the north and showed them how to make metal from stone. “Pull the sword from the stone” as it were.

[BlueStateBlues]

Hidden symbolism that’s right out in the open is always interesting. My favorite is the eye in the pyramid, obvious when you think about it.

[Nakota]

They found one of those over in Twin Valley, Minnesota. Turn it over and it reads “Allis Chalmers”.

[untwist]

They can prove its age without a doubt because the blacksmith forged the date 1000 BC on the handle.