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posted by cmn32480 on Saturday October 24 2015, @01:25PM   Printer-friendly
from the pulled-from-a-stone dept.

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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