Viking sword with beautiful decorations. The extreme nature of the ornamentation on this sword
Viking sword with beautiful decorations. The extreme nature of the ornamentation on this sword, combined with the unusual (for Scandinavia) motifs coupled with the apparent lack of a fuller (lenticular, ‘grooveless’ sword blades being a common hallmark of swords from Constantinople) may indicate that this sword was manufactured in Byzantium and may have belonged to a Varangian Guardsman or may have been gifted to a Nordic person held in esteem by the RomansRead more: http://sword-site.com/thread/1066/ornamented-lenticular-viking-byzantine-manufacture#ixzz40SiXOPHc11-12c AD -- source link
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