Viking Symbols and Norse Runes in the Heathen Germanic Culture

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Many Viking Swords in Museums Are Fakes

January 20, 2009 Viking Technology

According to a report in The Guardian, published in December 2008, Viking swords in some of the most famous weapons collections are counterfeit. However, the age of the fakes is the same as the one of the genuine swords, about a thousand years. The fact is that the best swords that were used by the [...]

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Viking Lenses from Visby, Sweden

January 19, 2009 Viking Technology

Several 11th century hoards found at Viking sites on the island of Gotland, Sweden, contained biconvex lenses made from rock-crystal. Some of them were set in silver. A few lenses had an almost perfect elliptical shape. The symmetry of the lenses as well as their biconvex elliptical form and fine polish, which resulted in a [...]

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