Found Islamic Coins Hidden Inside Viking Age Shield Boss

ThorNews ^ | Valentine's Day, February 14, 2015 | unattributed

[SunkenCiv]

In August 2014 a hobby archaeologist found a Viking Age sword with metal detector in a field in Skaun, just south of Trondheim in Central Norway. Now, archaeologists have examined the finding and have some exciting news about the owner.

Having examined the grave, archaeologists at the NTNU Museum of Natural History and Archaeology in Trondheim tell NRK that it is dated to about the year 950. In addition to the sword, researchers found the remains of a shield.

'We have not managed to find out who owned the sword, but we know that he was a well traveled man", says archaeologist Ingrid Ystgaard.

Radiographs show that there is an inscription on the sword blade that tells that it probably has been produced outside Scandinavia.

Swords with inscriptions were not common and show that it was of very high quality, unless it was a copy.

Spain or Constantinople?

Other evidence that the grave belongs to a man who had traveled widely was found in a leather purse hidden inside the shield boss: The purse contained several Islamic coins.

[SunkenCiv]

Archaeology Magazine's news item:

Last year, a metal detectorist discovered a sword from the Viking Age in a field in central Norway. Archaeologists from the Museum of Natural History and Archaeology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology excavated the site, and found a grave dating to about A.D. 950 that contained the remains of a Viking and his shield, in addition to the inscribed, high-quality sword. Hidden inside the shield boss they found a leather purse that contained several Islamic coins. Norwegian Vikings arrived in Spain in the 800s, where they may have come in contact with Islamic culture, or perhaps the coins were obtained through trade. "We have not managed to find out who owned the sword, but we know that he was a well-traveled man," archaeologist Ingrid Ystgaard told NRK, as reported by ThorNews. The shield boss also bears combat scars. "The shield boss has a clear cut mark by an ax or a sword. If he died in combat, we do not know," added Ystgaard.

[SunkenCiv]

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[SoCal Pubbie]

Was there a treasure map showing the location of a huge golden bell?

[Hugin]

Other evidence that the grave belongs to a man who had traveled widely was found in a leather purse hidden inside the shield boss: The purse contained several Islamic coins.

Doesn't mean he travelled widely. It's well known there were established trade routes through Russia to the Baltics, and on to Scandinavia. He could have gotten those things without traveling there.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Neat find. How are Norway’s laws? Will it be returned to him?

[BenLurkin]

Enlisting the power of Satan.

[centurion316]

The Vikings carried on a regular trade with the Islamic world.

[BenLurkin]

[BenLurkin]

Oops! Wrong movie. Should be:

[hondact200]

Just wait the Muslims will claim that they found America too and the Vikings followed them there too. everyone knows that Leif Erickson founded America via Minnesota and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, there is even a highway named after him! Come now it is posted on the highway! The Muslims will scream it is racist it should be named Prophet Mohammed.

[Tijeras_Slim]

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

The golden bell that floats on water!

[Vendome]

Put pictured of the man’s stuff on the back of a milk carton.

Guaranteed hell see it and then you’ll know who the owner was.

[BenLurkin]

I will call your 13th Warrior and raise you:

[SunkenCiv]

That is so prejudiced against the lactose intolerant, I’m just dumbfounded. /jk

[anymouse]

[Vendome]

So put it on quart sized yogurt containers....

LOL

[Tijeras_Slim]

YOWZA

[null and void]

The golden bell that floats on water!

Die goldene Glocke, die auf Wasser schwimmt!

[SunkenCiv]

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