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A sword is probably the last thing you'd expect to find on a hike -- especially one that's more than a millennium old.
But that's what happened to a man in Norway who recently stumbled across a 1,200-year-old Viking sword while walking an ancient route.
The find, which dates from approximately 750 A.D. and is in exceptionally good condition, was announced by Hordaland County Council.
County Conservator Per Morten Ekerhovd described the discovery as "quite extraordinary."
What will future hikers think of our civilization when they stumble across our CueCats lying, discarded, under rocks?
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Hyperturtle on Saturday October 24 2015, @02:47PM
I am hoping that future civilization also understands the futility of the utility of the CueCat and grants us the benefit of presuming we had some wisdom, despite everything else. If even we knew to discard it -- and hide it, under a rock, so that no one would get it garbage picking or on ebay (same thing), then perhaps we will be remembered favorably.
I, for one, would like to believe they were hackable enough to be turned into something of use or at least become less useless, but I think people wiser than me decided against that and began the campaign to hide them under rocks. I mean, at least with the viking sword, there is a cool factor. With a CueCat, it's like a junk item you find on a bad roll and sell as vendor trash. Except no vendor in our world will accept such trash except as an example of what they refuse to accept.