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Posted on 12/14/2011 10:05:20 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Evidence of a previously unknown Viking king has been discovered in a hoard of silver found by a metal detectorist, stashed in a lead box in a field in Lancashire.
The 201 pieces of silver including beautiful arm rings, worn by Viking warriors, were found on the outskirts of Silverdale, a village near the coast in north Lancashire, by Darren Webster, using the metal detector his wife gave him as a Christmas present. It adds up to more than 1kg of silver, probably stashed for safe keeping around AD900 at a time of wars and power struggles among the Vikings of northern England, and never recovered.
Airdeconut -- thought to be the Anglo Saxon coin maker's struggle to get to grips with the Viking name Harthacnut -- was found on one of the coins in the hoard.
The Airdeconut coin also reveals that within a generation of the Vikings starting to colonise permanent settlements in Britain in the 870s -- instead of coming as summer raiders -- their kings had allied themselves to the Christian god. The reverse of the coin has the words DNS --– for Dominus-Rex, arranged as a cross.
The hoard is regarded as among the best found this century, and the fact that it was never recovered suggests its owner came to an untimely end...
The find will go through a treasure inquest next week to determine its value. The reward will be shared between Webster and the land owner. The Museum of Lancaster hopes to raise funds to buy the hoard.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
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Just incredible!
Very cool and well preserved stuff.
I am actually descended from some of this crowd through my maternal grandmother so that makes it all the more interesting.
That’s neat. Just think, one of your relatives might have worn one of those arm bands.
very, VERY cool!
Very possible. My grandmother’s maiden was Fairchild who settled in Connecticut, but as they moved west they were in Ulster co. New York for awhile, which was home to a great number of French Huguenots.
One was named Louis du Bois de Fiennes, who happened to be Norman French nobility who bounced between England and France for several hundred years and either directly or indirectly married into every family of consequence in Europe, including Vikings. We married into that about 5 generations descended from Louis du Bois via some of the old New York families. I am actually descended from Charlemagne if you go back far enough.
Basically, if you can hook into nobility anywhere back there, you’re hooked into everybody. It’s amazing how incestuous European nobility is, even between countries that regularly fought each other.
You’ve got it down very nicely.
You’re right about European Royalty.
Charles Carroll of Carrollton {Maryland} a signer of the Declaration of Independence is a distant relative of mine.
Airdeconut
Sounds like air [speed] coconut.
There’s a silent [sparrow] in there somewhere...
What? What do you mean? African sparrow or European sparrow?
Swallow, not sparrow. (Although I made the same mistake while typing that post.)
It’s European. Two of them, using string to hold the coconut between them.
Thanks!
So, are they saying there was another Harthacnut, previously unknown, who ruled around 900? Very unlikely - the English succession at the time is well known.
Another possibility is a previously unknown King of Northumbria, which at the time was in its Viking period. Of course, Lancashire wasn't in Northumbria, but it was close. Perhaps a party raiding into Mercia buried it and never got back to dig it up?
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