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1,200-year-old Viking Sword Discovered by Hiker

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

Phoenix666 writes:

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: 2) by maxwell demon on Saturday October 24 2015, @06:55PM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Saturday October 24 2015, @06:55PM (#254058) Journal

    What will future hikers think of our civilization when they stumble across our CueCats lying, discarded, under rocks?

    Well, here's a report I received from that time through a time warp:

    A hiker last week found the remains of an ancient object in the form of a stretched cat. Scientists date it to be from about 1200 years ago and identified it as cult object, due to an ancient cat cult that was widespread during that time. Not a lot information about it could be recovered because most information about that time was destroyed in what historians call the Big Crash, when a worldwide system of interconnected sites known as the internet failed. According to the little information that could be recovered about that time, the people back then worshipped a cat god named LOLcat; the scientists explain that the newly found object probably depicts LOLcat.

    The LOLcat cult is believed to be the dominant religion of that time. Indeed, there are some sources that claim that the internet was originally built for LOLcat, although other sources claim it was made for something the people back then called porn (our scientists are still trying to figure out what this porn thing was).

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