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posted by CoolHand on Friday October 05 2018, @08:18PM   Printer-friendly
from the round-table dept.

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From Motherboard.vice.com

Legend holds that King Arthur's reign was foreseen by an enchanted lady in a lake, who granted him the sword Excalibur. By the same rules, Saga Vanecek, an eight-year-old Swedish girl, is now on a divine path to rule a great kingdom after she discovered a 1,000-year-old sword in a lake.

The sword may be Viking in origin and could date back to Arthurian times, in the 5th or 6th centuries, according to experts at the Jönköpings Läns Museum. That its discoverer is literally named Saga is further proof that this is the stuff of legends.

Vanecek found the rusted weapon over the summer while swimming in Vidöstern Lake in Småland with her family. "I felt something with my hand and thought it was a stick, and then I lifted it up and it had a handle that looked like it was a sword," she recounted in an interview with the Swedish news site Värnamo Nyheter.

"Then I lifted it up and shouted at Dad: 'Daddy I found a sword!'"

Girl pulls ancient sword from lake

An eight-year-old found a pre-Viking-era sword while swimming in a lake in Sweden during the summer.

Saga Vanecek found the relic in the Vidöstern lake while at her family's holiday home in Jönköping County.

The sword was initially reported to be 1,000 years old, but experts at the local museum now believe it may date to around 1,500 years ago.

"It's not every day that you step on a sword in the lake!" Mikael Nordström from the museum said.

The level of the water was extremely low at the time, owing to a drought, which is probably why Saga uncovered the ancient weapon.


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 05 2018, @11:58PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 05 2018, @11:58PM (#744850)

    Kowtow to the Pres?

    If you are a US citizen, you must not have passed middle school civics.

    Fuck the Pres with a telephone pole, and any citizen trying to kowtow to him(or her, in the future).

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Saturday October 06 2018, @01:53AM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Saturday October 06 2018, @01:53AM (#744906) Journal

    You're missing an important part of the above conversation. Those people feel a need to kowtow to someone. Their chosen kow lost the election, so they don't know who to tow to. I suppose that Queen Saga will fill that bill nicely. At least she's a pretty little girl. If we have to tow to a kow, I'd rather the kow be pretty.