Girl, 8, pulls a 1,500-year-old sword from a lake in Sweden

BBC ^ | 4 Oct 2018

[DUMBGRUNT]

Saga Vanecek found the relic in the Vidöstern lake while at her family's holiday home in Jönköping County.

The sword was initially reported to be 1,000 years old, but experts at the local museum now believe it may date to around 1,500 years ago.

[dfwgator]

Bloody peasant.

[dayglored]

That’s my tag line of the past 13 years you’ve got there...

[VietVet]

“...her arm clad in the purest shimmering silmite…”

That should be “samite”, a luxury fabric woven of silk and wool.

[Bartholomew Roberts]

Since everybody else got in all the good jokes....

Here are interesting factoids:

The girl’s name, Saga, is pronounced SAY-a.

It means fable or folklore in Swedish. As in all the old Viking stories that were handed down from generation to generation.

Interesting coincidence.

[Bartholomew Roberts]

Jönköping is an old trading centre (Köping) situated at a natural crossroads for routes following the rivers Nissan and Lagan, and the road connecting the provinces of Östergötland and Västergötland, a result of the town’s geographical position at the southern end of lake Vättern, which divides the two provinces.

On 18 May 1284 Jönköping became the first City in Sweden to be granted its rights by king Magnus Ladulås, who ruled mostly from Vättern’s largest island Visingsö. The first part of the city’s name, “Jön”, is derived from a creek, “Junebäcken”, in Talavid, in what is now the western part of the city. The second part of the name “köping”, is, as mentioned above, an old word for a trading centre or market place.[5]

The geographical position of the city also left it vulnerable to attack via the river routes that led south, mainly from Danes. At that time the provinces of what is today southern Sweden — Scania, Halland and Blekinge — belonged to Denmark. The city was plundered and burned several times until it was fortified during the 16th and 17th centuries.

Jönköping was known for its matchstick industry between 1845–1970.[6] Today it is an important Nordic logistical center, with many companies’ central warehouses (such as Elkjøp, IKEA, Electrolux and Husqvarna) situated there.

per Wikipedia

[yesthatjallen]

Maybe it's not a coincidence.

Maybe it's destiny.

[rktman]

Drive out the moose limbs?? 😂

[PLMerite]

“Does this mean she’s now the rightful queen of Sweden?”

I always get to these threads too late...

[Kommodor]

There can be only one... oh, wait , wrong movie. ;)

[Kartographer]

TO LATE!

Lo there do I see my father;
Lo there do I see my mother
and my sisters and my brothers;
Lo there do I see the line of my people, back to the beginning.
Lo, they do turn their backs to me,
they refuse me a place among them,
in the halls of Valhalla, where ony the brave may live forever.

[Hoosier-Daddy]

My sister was bit by a moose

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks DUMBGRUNT. I'm 47! I'm not old!

[BenLurkin]

“One day a king will come, and the sword will rise again.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwK90ecdrXg

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks waterhill for the ping. Svenska in the fenska topic.

[ZULU]

It might scare the poor babies

[ZULU]

Gesundheit!

[Vendome]

She the Queen?

[Vendome]

Funny.

Burying my friend tomorrow and that is exactly how he wanted to go out...

Hell have tonsettke for a nice catholic burial

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks BenLurkin.

[GOP Poet]

cool!!