Keyword: sword
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Archaeologists have uncovered a unique fragment of a Viking sword near Witmarsum, a village in northern Netherlands. The find, a pommel cap from the 10th century AD, once formed part of a gilded sword hilt. It features intricate patterns in the Mammen style, a decorative art tradition that followed the Jellinge style. The Fryske Akademy explained that the design includes depictions of wild boar heads, which symbolised strength, courage, protection, and combat. Most Read on Euro Weekly News Remarkable Viking discoveries in Sweden Interactions between Frisia, Scandinavia, and the British Isles Dr. Nelleke IJssennagger-van der Pluijm, director of the Fryske...
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Police responding to a family disturbance arrested a man who allegedly attacked his brother with a sword at a home in Southern California’s Inland Empire on Tuesday. The incident was reported around 7:30 a.m. at the residence near 11th Street and 6th Avenue, the Upland Police Department posted on X.
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Video game prop weapons are commonly seen in collections or at conventions. But it's a bad idea to carry around a replica video game weapon that has an actual blade attached to it. Anthony Bray, a resident of Nuneaton in Warwickshire, England discovered this the hard way when police arrested him last month for carrying a replica of Link's Master Sword from The Legend of Zelda. Via the Warwickshire police, Bray has been sentenced to four months in prison for carrying a bladed article in public. According to the report, Bray was spotted by officers on June 8 with the...
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As of Monday, it is no longer illegal in Hawaii to carry a dangerous weapon in public, and switchblade and butterfly knives are no longer banned. HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) -- As of Monday, it is no longer illegal in Hawaii to carry a dangerous weapon in public -- and switchblade and butterfly knives are no longer banned. That change led to an alarming sight in Waikiki at sunset Tuesday. The governor signed HB 2342 into law Monday without fanfare, making it immediately legal to openly carry weapons that were banned in public until now. Gun rights activist Andrew Namiki Roberts, leader...
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A 14-year-old boy has died after several people were stabbed - including two police officers - in a car and sword attack in north-east London. The boy was among five people treated at the scene in Hainault who were taken to hospital, where he died. A 36-year-old man was arrested after being Tasered by police 22 minutes after they were called to the scene. Eyewitnesses described seeing the suspect run through the area with a sword before he was Tasered. At a press conference, the Metropolitan Police said the suspect was in hospital being treated for injuries sustained when a...
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Customers at Home Depot were delighted to discover the home improvement store is now selling a medieval sword similar to one used in a famed 1990s Best Picture winner. "Reclaim your FREEDOM from the tyrannical English king with this authentic William Wallace sword," Home Depot's descri7ption of the product says. The sword is a replica of the one used by Mel Gibson in the 1995 Oscar-winning film, "Braveheart." Fans of the film wasted no time filling the product's Question and Answer section and reviews with jokes and references to the iconic film and other famous movies.
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Archaeologists in Sweden have discovered the medieval burial of an extremely tall man who was buried with a long sword — one that was nearly two-thirds of his height — and may have been a nobleman who supported the region's ill-fated union with Denmark and Norway.The sword, which is over 4 feet (1.3 meters) long, seems to have been inlaid with a different metal to form small Christian crosses, excavation leader Johan Klange, an archaeologist with the Halland Cultural Environment, an agency of the local government, told Live Science.Even taller than the sword was the man in the grave. Klange...
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A large cemetery from the time of the Crusades was discovered near a medieval stone church in Salo Perttel, a former municipality in Finland.A landowner in the municipality of Salo was looking over excavation work for the installation of geothermal pipes when he spotted an iron object poking out of a mound of dirt. He pulled it out and found himself holding a nearly complete He was reported to archaeologists from the University of Turku and the Turku Museum Centre.The find has now led to the discovery of an extensive grave field, not far from the grey granite medieval church...
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(Israel Antiquities Authority/YouTube) Israeli researchers made a rare find during a survey of a Dead Sea cave: Four perfectly preserved Roman swords thought to have been used in battle 1,900 years ago. The swords were likely "booty" hidden by rebels from an opposing faction, who would have been in danger if they were caught carrying the Roman weapons, Eitan Klein, one of the directors of the Judean Desert Survey Project who worked on the dig, said in a statement. Four Roman-era swords, their wooden and leather hilts and scabbards and steel blades exquisitely preserved after 1,900 years in a desert...
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Japanese researchers discovered a large dakō iron sword and a giant bronze mirror in a 4th-century burial mound in the city of Nara. The two items were found last November in the Tomio Maruyama Tumulus. According to the local government groups, the 125-pound, shield-shaped decorated mirror was the first of its kind to be discovered, and the seven-foot iron serpentine dakō sword is the largest and oldest from the Kofun period (300 CE–710 CE) to be found. Experts say this allows the two items from the Tomio Maruyama Tumulus to be classified as national treasures. The shield-shaped mirror is two...
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The sword was discovered in 2021 by Shlomi Katzin while conducting a study of stone and metal anchors on the seabed. The area was a natural anchorage for ships near Haifa's ancient port city that the Crusaders captured from the Arabs during the early 12th century AD.In a new study published by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), the researchers describe how the sword was found covered in a thick marine concretion of sand and shells, making it difficult to separate the metal without causing damage. However, the concretion slowed down the oxidation process, preserving the sword which would have rusted...
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·The ancient weapon was dug up in the small German town of Nördlingen·Experts were shocked to find how shiny it was despite laying in a burial site·They are unsure where the sword was made or who the people are at this graveArchaeologists have stumbled upon an extremely rare Bronze Age sword at an ancient burial site in Germany.The weapon, believed to be 3,000 years old, was dug up in the small town of Nördlingen just last week.Experts were shocked it was so well preserved that it actually shined, despite laying in a grave of three people.The three bodies included a...
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VALLEJO, Calif. — Two people were arrested on suspicion of murder in the death of a fellow squatter who was shot and killed by a California property owner, authorities said. The property owner was impaled by a sword during the confrontation. A witness told the newspaper that the property owner, identified as Curt Lind, 80, came to his mobile home covered in blood. “He came banging on my door with a sword sticking through him,” Patrick McMillan, a tenant who lives in a mobile home on the property, told the Chronicle. McMillan told the newspaper that Lind was his landlord...
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Scottish museum acquires 8th c. gold sword pommel An exceptionally rare gold sword pommel that is one of the only ones of its kind ever found in Scotland has been acquired by National Museums Scotland. It was made around 700 A.D. out of solid gold and is decorated with intricate gold filigree, geometric patterns and stylized zoomorphic designs. Garnets are set in the goldwork. Goldwork of any quality from this period is rare in the UK; this object is so rich and so skillfully crafted that it is a unique example on the Scottish archaeological record. The pommel (the widened...
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Today in Liberal NinnyNanny News, we have sad tidings for Canadians with unapproved hobbies:In recent years shipping swords around the world has become increasingly difficult and complicated – and most recently CANADA seems to have singled out swords as 'dangerous goods' and have started returning our shipments sent from the US to Canada, even singling swords out with their own 'dangerous goods' checkbox along with air shocks, guns, ink cartridges, knives, liquids, swords and the dreaded 'other' category. The merit of this spurious decision is a topic for another time, but least to say that lumping swords in with Airshocks,...
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A Florida man pulled a 3-foot sword on police officers when they approached a vehicle that was parked on the side of the road on Saturday. Deputies from the Lee County Sheriff’s Office approached a Nissan Altima in North Fort Meyers because it was blocking the bike line, WBBH-TV reported. Inside of the car, they found a man reclined in the driver’s seat. After learning that the man provided the deputies with a fake name, the deputies asked him to step outside of the vehicle. As police tried to remove him, he reached towards his center console and drew the...
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A day after frightening video of a sword-swinging fight in Brampton emerged online, Peel regional police Deputy Chief Nick Milinovich said investigators have identified persons of interest in the melee. “I can confidently say that the investigation is progressing well and we anticipate holding those people accountable,” Milinovich said Tuesday while showing off more than $12 million in seized drugs from a separate probe.
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HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A man accused of using a sword to chop off a man’s hand at a Waikiki convenience store has been charged with attempted murder.
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The suspected gunman in the deadly shooting at an Independence Day parade in Highland Park, Illinois, had prior contact with law enforcement, police said Tuesday. Robert "Bobby" E. Crimo III, 21, had two previous encounters with police in Highland Park, with the most recent in September 2019 over a "mental health issue" in which Crimo threatened to kill members of his family, Christopher Covelli, a spokesman for the Lake County Major Crime Task Force said in a news briefing.
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In a June 25 tweet, Canadian pollster John Corbett wrote, "Clarence Thomas: Just another dumb field n*gger" from an account that was almost immediately suspended. Advertisement Adam B. Coleman, author and The Post Millennial contributor, posted a screenshot of the hateful and racist remark on Twitter and wrote, "He says n*gger with such ease. These are the self righteous people who see black people as either an acceptable n*gger or a "field n*gger"... Either way, we'll always be n*ggers to @johnVcorbett because our purpose is to serve a master."
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