A Viking weaver's sword dating from the 11th century was among several significant Viking artifacts unearthed in Cork City excavations, at the Beamish Brewery, in 2017. The wooden Viking sword was ...

Archaeologists believe the Linschoten Sword was forged to straddle both worlds.

Illustration: Viking ships invading England, circa 900 AD. Amateur detectives have uncovered remnants of a Viking-era sword in the Jåttå/Gausel area in Stavanger, a city in southwestern Norway ...

The markings don’t stop there: on one side, the sword a circle with an X layered inside, known as a sun wheel or sonnenrad.

A sword more than 1,000 years old emerged intact recently from a sword in a river on a private estate near Utrecht, the ...

A METAL detectorist has accidentally discovered a 1000-year-old Viking sword fragment with unique animal carvings. The incredible discovery was made by a treasure hunter Sander Visser while scannin… ...

The iron is barely corroded due to the oxygen-poor environment of the wet soil it was buried in, and traces of the wooden ...

The sword appears to have connections to the Viking Age, an era that spanned from about 800 to 1050 C.E. During this time, Vikings conducted raids throughout Europe and landed in Poland.

Nordic Vikings Owned Way Too Many Swords, Study Finds. Compared with their Danish neighbors, the Nordic Vikings were exceedingly violent. The Walküren (Valkyrien), 1864, found in the Collection ...

A metal detectorist unearthed a Viking sword fragment shaped like wild boars, a first-of-its-kind find for the Netherlands, photos show. Photo from the Fries Museum On a farm in the Netherlands, a ...