Every Viking owned a stone like this - and they traded massive quantities of them too

Sciencenorway.no ^ | September 23, 2022 | Anders Moen Kaste, Ida Irene Bergstrøm, Translated by Nancy Bazilchuk

[SunkenCiv]

What did people do with so many whetstones 1,300 years ago? The two light grey stones were found in Eidsborg in Telemark, while the darkest ones are from Mostadmarka in Trøndelag.

Photo: Irene Baug

[SunkenCiv]

[Gay State Conservative]

later

[laplata]

I’d love to have a Viking whetstone. It would be enjoyable to use.

[P.O.E.]

As kids we used to collect shiny, smooth brown stones called “lucky stones”. I still have a couple lying around somewhere.

[nickcarraway]

Were those to comb their dreadlocks?

[N. Theknow]

Cold hard cash!

[Paladin2]

Where any manufactured by Hoppes?

[Paladin2]

Were any manufactured by Hoppes?

[ptsal]

Bkmk

[HartleyMBaldwin]

If they had only sailed to Arkansas.

[BipolarBob]

Found in Minnesota?

[SunkenCiv]

lol

[gundog]

Love my Arkansas hardstone.

[nicollo]

Like anything, it started innocently... first a whetstone here and there, then a nickel or dime, not much, but before you know it, they needed kilos of everyone else’s stones.

[Fai Mao]

I bet every non-Viking owned a wet stone too

[SunkenCiv]

That’s what she said.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Bookmark

[Stosh]

So why did they plant them at Stonehenge, and how the heck did they get them to grow?

[SunkenCiv]

Turns out, they actually removed all the rest of the Stonehenge-like monuments, and whittled each stone down until they were portable.