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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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* m2 stares at the monitor... it looks like a hamburger...
m2 - that's a bad sign
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 24 2015, @04:34PM
I noticed it looks like a single-edged profile, which I don't recall seeing on viking swords I'd seen before.
Had to scroll a few pages through an image search for [viking sword] before I found an example, originating from (appropriately enough) this thread https://sbg-sword-forum.forums.net/thread/21626/single-edged-viking-swords [forums.net].
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 24 2015, @08:52PM
What is popular today in an image search and what was are not at all the same.