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Danish teenager makes rare Viking-era find with metal detector
FOX NEWS ^
| 05/16/13
| AP via FOX
Posted on 05/17/2013 4:30:09 PM PDT by Doogle
COPENHAGEN, Denmark – Danish museum officials say that an archaeological dig last year has revealed 365 items from the Viking era, including 60 rare coins.
Danish National Museum spokesman Jens Christian Moesgaard says the coins have a distinctive cross motif attributed to Norse King Harald Bluetooth, who is believed to have brought Christianity to Norway and Denmark.
Sixteen-year-old Michael Stokbro Larsen found the coins and other items with a metal detector in a field in northern Denmark.
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TOPICS: Gardening; Hobbies; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: bluetooth; canute; cnut; cnutthegreat; denmark; detectors; england; epigraphyandlanguage; funeral; godsgravesglyphs; haraldbluetooth; metaldetecting; norway; roskilde; sweynforkbeard; thevikings; unitedkingdom; vikings
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posted on
05/17/2013 4:30:09 PM PDT
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Doogle
To: Chode
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posted on
05/17/2013 4:30:27 PM PDT
by
Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: Doogle
Maybe it can pay for their new football stadium.
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posted on
05/17/2013 4:31:43 PM PDT
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dfwgator
To: dfwgator
I had a button that look like that once
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posted on
05/17/2013 4:33:42 PM PDT
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Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: Doogle
On a blazer wasn’t it.
I think I had the same one.
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posted on
05/17/2013 4:35:01 PM PDT
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BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
05/17/2013 4:35:34 PM PDT
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Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: dfwgator
Picture of King Harold...
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posted on
05/17/2013 4:35:38 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: Doogle
I wish King Harald Bluetooth would help me set up my bluetooth GPS receiver.
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posted on
05/17/2013 4:36:58 PM PDT
by
donhunt
(Certified and proud "Son of a Bitch".)
To: Doogle
good on him! bet he buys a new metal detector too...
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posted on
05/17/2013 4:40:50 PM PDT
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: Chode
Museum officials are involved. I bet he gets nothing. Someone will come along and say his finds are of historical or archaeological and belong in a museum. This is the aggrevating part of metal detecting, trying to gain permission in some areas and then keeping what you find.
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
05/17/2013 6:06:14 PM PDT
by
Pharmboy
(Democrats lie because they must.)
To: Doogle
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posted on
05/17/2013 6:48:34 PM PDT
by
slapshot
("Were not gonna take it anymore" Twisted Sister)
To: conservative98
even though not full value, i thought they had to give you some kind of payment like England does
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posted on
05/17/2013 7:14:18 PM PDT
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Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: Doogle
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05/17/2013 7:38:37 PM PDT
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Graewoulf
(Traitor John Roberts' Commune-Style Obama'care' violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
To: conservative98
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05/17/2013 9:09:58 PM PDT
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Ken H
To: Pharmboy; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
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posted on
05/18/2013 6:22:30 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
To: Doogle
No place in this article (that I could find) does the author offer dates for the “Viking era”, or the reign of King Harald Bluetooth. Pretty coins, however. They look to be in very good condition.
To: afraidfortherepublic
After a restart of my frozen computer, I looked it up. King Harald Bluetooth was the king of Denmark in the mid to late 900s. He is credited with uniting Denmark and overseeing its conversion to Christianity.
To: afraidfortherepublic
I went 14 deep in search pages...*LOL*...
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posted on
05/18/2013 8:09:29 AM PDT
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Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: conservative98; Chode
Someone will come along and say his finds are of historical or archaeological and belong in a museum. When this happens in the UK, they have to give the finder and/or the land owner the full market value of the find. From what I've read, the finder and land owner normally split the money 50/50.
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posted on
05/18/2013 9:54:59 AM PDT
by
jimtorr
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