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 ...
Dear FRiends,
We need your continuing support to keep FR funded. Your donations are our sole source of funding. No sugar daddies, no advertisers, no paid memberships, no commercial sales, no gimmicks, no tax subsidies. No spam, no pop-ups, no ad trackers.
If you enjoy using FR and agree it's a worthwhile endeavor, please consider making a contribution today:
Click here: to donate by Credit Card
Or here: to donate by PayPal
Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794
Thank you very much and God bless you,
Jim
This is why kids need to go on more field trips from school.
Maybe it could be wrapped around the ankle of one trying to get away.
It’s a Mobius sword with only one side and one edge.
...and they should take along metal detectors.
Crap. I need to read every reply before I try to prove my wittiness.
My first thought was, one side in a vertical transect...as if holding the edge against the grindstone along a single plane...as you would for the edge of a plane blade. But I guess one side means the bottom edge bevel sharpened and the opposite top edge ignored (holding the blade horizontally).
Well done, Henrik! What a great story. Imagine the moment he realized what he’d found!
😂
* snort*
Technically, a moebius sword would be single edged... hmm...
Has the kid found whats left of the owner?
That guy did not just drop the sword.
Imagine the battle that happened.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.