Credit: Kulturarv i Innlandet via Facebook
Posted on 05/19/2026 10:08:53 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
...The discovery was made by Henrik Refsnes Mørtvedt, a first-grade pupil at Fredheim School, during a class trip in the Brandbu area of the Gran municipality, in Norway's Innlandet county. According to NRK, Henrik spotted part of the object protruding from the soil while walking across a field with his classmates...
Instead of treating it as a souvenir, they contacted local archaeologists. That decision may have saved an important piece of Norway's early medieval past.
Archaeologists identified the object as a single-edged sword, meaning it was sharpened on only one side. This type of blade is often associated with the Merovingian Period in Scandinavia, roughly between AD 550 and 800, a time that immediately preceded the better-known Viking Age...
The estimated age of the Brandbu sword, about 1,300 years, places it in a particularly interesting transition period. This was a time when local power networks, warrior elites and regional identities were taking shape across Scandinavia. Long before Viking ships began raiding and trading across Europe, communities in inland Norway were already connected to a world of weapons, status and territorial control.
(Excerpt) Read more at arkeonews.net ...
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Thanks for the link!
“You can’t expect to wield supreme power just ‘cause some watery tart threw a sword at you.”
Okay so 1,300 / 6 ..... Wait
I’m not sure if Norway was expecting to get a new king, but...
If he pulled it out of a rock, the government better look out.
“OH! OW! And now we see the violence inherent in the sysytem!’’
Imagine trying to grip that dang thing... Ouch!
Good thing it wasn’t one of those muzzy migrant kids that found it…
“. . . a single-edged sword, meaning it was sharpened on only one side . . .”
I thought every make child in Norway was named Mohammad by now
If it happened in the UK the boy would be immediately arrested. Probably if it happened in the US as part of a public school field trip as well depending on the proximity to a blue state hell hole.
-PJ
The sword was infinitely wide?
Obviously written by a recent graduate of a journalism school ...
Hey, at least they didn’t try to explain the concept using a single entendre. 😊
There’s also the very rare and hard-to-use moebius sword.
Those kids probably don’t spend that much time outdoors in Norway, even during the 2 weeks of summer.
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