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Posted on 07/03/2022 6:31:13 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
A Viking sword discovered by metal detectorists in Norway is revealing new insights into voyages in the North Sea.
The sword was found in three pieces in the Jåttå/Gausel area in Stavanger, an area renowned for the grave of the “Gausel Queen” first discovered in 1883...
Under Norwegian law, the sword was reported to authorities and was sent to the Museum of Archaeology at the University of Stavanger for further study and conservation work.
Although the blade is missing, the hilt has unique details in gold and silver and includes gilded elements of the typical animal styles found during the Iron and Viking Age between AD 550 and 1050.
The hilt also contains geometrical figures in silver, made with the so-called niello technique using a metallic mixture to make black stripes in the silver. Only 20 such similar swords have been found in Norway out of a total of around 3000 Viking sword finds...
Examples of this sword type has been found in both Eastern and Western Europe, but very few in Norway, suggesting that the sword was likely imported.
Although it is possible that the sword was a copy made by highly skilled local blacksmiths, the decor suggests that it was forged and crafted in France or England during AD 800.
It has previously been suggested that the Jåttå/Gausel-area was the starting point for extensive alliances and looting. The sword and Gausel Queen burial now suggests that the area was an important hub for contact across the North Sea.
“The location of the find close to the Gausel Queen means that we have to take a new look at the entire Jåttå/Gausel area,” says Håkon Reiersen, researcher at the Museum of Archaeology in Stavanger.
(Excerpt) Read more at heritagedaily.com ...
Kinda like two bad storms in the Gulf....suggest....the result of Climate chnage.
The use of the word ‘suggests’ shows there isn’t a false claim of absolute knowledge, and is consistent with the scientific method.
They will.
Climate change is 100% natural, 100% of the time.
This kind of discovery is particularly interesting. Metalworking on this level was a highly skilled craft. Technical knowledge like that would diffuse across space & time slowly and in fits & starts.
Not imported, purchased or plundered elsewhere. The Vikings got around.
Somehow they're projecting that the "perfect temperature" was just before the industrial revolution.
Of course that cannot be. What it was...is what it was".
The "perfect temperature at any point on earth "IS WHAT It WAS/IS/WILL BE".
It can be nothing else.
And we're not going to change the future.
“No one on earth knows what the temperature WAS OR SHOULD BE AT any point on the earth at any point in time.”
I didn’t say any such thing. Stop trolling this topic about a Viking sword with your same-wheel-turning-in-same-rut BS.
you posted climate at 6.........i followed your lead
No, you brought it up in #3. But I expect trolls to lie.
"Suggestion" is the proper motive of an inductive argument, whereas "proof" is proper to essentially deductive arguments. The author is just qualifying his direction to conclusion.
Hope they make up their collective minds, so I do not have to rewatch the TV series again to find out the truth...
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