The sword is in such good condition it could be used today. Photo: Hordaland Country Council
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1 posted on
10/21/2015 2:09:26 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
Was it an ulfbert?
Early version?
To: SunkenCiv
"This was a common sword in Western Norway. But it was a costly weapon, and the owner must have used it to show power," he said. Because he couldn't possibly have used it to split skulls and sever necks ...
4 posted on
10/21/2015 2:14:18 PM PDT by
NorthMountain
("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
To: SunkenCiv
Single edged seax. I would have to get very intoxicated after such a find.
5 posted on
10/21/2015 2:16:15 PM PDT by
Psalm 144
(NATO and ISIS sittin' in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G)
To: SunkenCiv
"This was a common sword in Western Norway. But it was a costly weapon, and the owner must have used it to show power,"Or to take power.
8 posted on
10/21/2015 2:20:45 PM PDT by
RC one
(....and subject to the jurisdiction thereof)
What would be the original grip? bone/antler?
9 posted on
10/21/2015 2:21:13 PM PDT by
Rio
(Proud resident of the State of Jefferson)
To: SunkenCiv
the sword was in such good condition that if it was given a new grip and a polish, it could be used today.Not to be a school marm. But that should be "if is WERE given a new grip and a polish..."
Is this what common core has produced?
;-)
My favorite English teacher in high school would have sentenced me to 30 wacks of her paddle for such weakness of language skills. And she taught my own mother who also whacked me for poor usage of language.
10 posted on
10/21/2015 2:23:10 PM PDT by
RoosterRedux
(Trump: As long as you are going to be thinking anyway...think big.)
To: SunkenCiv
The runic inscription on the rock read:
Whosoever Draweth Forth This Sword From The Stone Shall Be Central Administrator Of All Haukeli
12 posted on
10/21/2015 2:24:35 PM PDT by
kiryandil
(Maya: "Liberalism Is What Smart Looks Like to Stupid People")
To: KC_Lion; TADSLOS
Dammit Lydia I told you not to leave that lying around just anywhere....
13 posted on
10/21/2015 2:26:13 PM PDT by
Norm Lenhart
(Embrace "Existential Cage Theory")
To: SunkenCiv
The story doesn’t give any details on how it was so well preserved. Would a sword survive this well if it were in a dry cave, or buried in clay? The story says a hiker just came across it, so it must have been on the surface and only recently exposed.
14 posted on
10/21/2015 2:27:50 PM PDT by
sphinx
To: SunkenCiv
Sooooo, we should ban it now.......right?
15 posted on
10/21/2015 2:28:48 PM PDT by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
To: SunkenCiv
all I ever find are those pellets that Owls puke up
To: SunkenCiv
"This was a common sword in Western Norway. But it was a costly weapon, and the owner must have used it to show power,"Baloney.
Whoever wielded it did not have power because he wielded it.
It's power was not in its ownership...it was in its killing.
If it were owned by a fat old Laird...who could barely pick it up.
It would have no power.
The warrior who used it was powerful because he was effective.
There's the power...and the value of this weapon.
18 posted on
10/21/2015 2:29:49 PM PDT by
RoosterRedux
(Trump: As long as you are going to be thinking anyway...think big.)
To: SunkenCiv
When my brothers and I were play sword fighting our favorite challenge was to declare: “Your sword is rusty!”
23 posted on
10/21/2015 2:44:57 PM PDT by
\/\/ayne
(I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
To: SunkenCiv
all this discussion over a sword.
Imagine if he had found a catapult!!
28 posted on
10/21/2015 2:54:34 PM PDT by
SGCOS
To: SunkenCiv
Unfortunately the hiker was a member of ISIS, so the sword was immediately melted down and destroyed. /s
31 posted on
10/21/2015 3:13:35 PM PDT by
Boris99
To: SunkenCiv
36 posted on
10/21/2015 3:41:10 PM PDT by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: SunkenCiv
Jostein Aksdal, an archeologist with Hordaland County said that the sword was in such good condition that if it was given a new grip and a polish, it could be used today. Obviously wasn't made in China then.
40 posted on
10/21/2015 4:35:11 PM PDT by
Lorianne
To: SunkenCiv
That new Last Kingdom series in BBC America is great
No PC
no stupid chick crap
No fags at least not yet
No sub Saharan blacks were they don’t belong historically
No bashing Catholic Church so far
And so forth
It I think chronicles the rise of Alfred the Great through a Saxon boy raised by the same Danes who killed his Earl daddy
Very well done
Narcos on Netflix is another great great series
A+++
42 posted on
10/21/2015 4:43:13 PM PDT by
wardaddy
(The establishment needs destroying)
To: SunkenCiv
He should check around for a misplaced hammer by a guy named Thor....
To: SunkenCiv
A relic from their last Super Bowl appearance?
46 posted on
10/21/2015 4:59:08 PM PDT by
daler
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