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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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You are a fluke of the universe; you have no right to be here.
(Score: 3, Informative) by bzipitidoo on Sunday October 25 2015, @02:09PM
Yes, I saw a show about this. May have been the same one. They decided this high quality steel could only have come from the Middle East, possibly through current day Russia, and this proved that Vikings traded extensively. The Rus originated from the Vikings. As to the steel, the high quality can only be achieved with kilns that can get the temperature hot enough, and civilization in and around the Middle East was one of the places that had such kilns.