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Re:Unique sword casts new light on Viking voyages across the... by NegativeLatency on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @06:24PM (#32173206)
The page wont load for me so: https://web.archive.org/web/20220719051909/https://phys.org/...
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Re:Unique sword casts new light on Viking voyages across the... by WalterBright on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @07:23PM (#32173727)
The article remarks on how it would have been a very heavy sword. This suggests to me it was a ceremonial sword, as a too-heavy fighting sword just means you're going to die. Or maybe the missing blade is just stuck in a stone somewhere.
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Re:Unique sword casts new light on Viking voyages across the... by wrp on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @08:36PM (#32174332)
But, since the blade is missing, we don't know how big it actually was. It's funny to me that they have just a handle but they keep calling it a "sword".

By the way, didn't Beowulf bring back just a handle after the fight with Grendel's mother? Maybe he started a fashion. :-)

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Re:Unique sword casts new light on Viking voyages across the... by pwason on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @11:56AM (#32153510)
But, is it magic?
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Re:Unique sword casts new light on Viking voyages across the... by WalterBright on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @07:25PM (#32173748)
It may have been a scimitar lobbed by some moistened bint.
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Re:Unique sword casts new light on Viking voyages across the... by bergenty on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @08:04PM (#32174119)
bints stay at home in the kitchen
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