Real Viking Sword?

[Scott Anderson]

You never know with the clickbait media now, but what do you guys think? Is this a real Viking sword? What era? What would you call it in D&D terms?


www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/viking-sword-beamish-brewery-cork?utm_source=zergnet.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=zergnet_2514711

[DungeonDevil]

Jim Bowie, Time Traveller!

[MormonYoYoMan]

Looks more like a knife, as Dungeon Debbie noticed. But if it really is made of Vikings, I guess it would be a Viking knife.

[Starbeard]

It is real. I think it's largely a professional dig, but I do think there's a doctoral candidate at UCC also on the team doing research. Really exciting stuff.

However, the item mentioned is not a sword sword, but a weaving sword, also called a shed stick. It's used to shed the yarn.

Archaeologically speaking, Ireland is famous for being a weird habitat. Relatively intact examples of wood and even fabric have been found surviving for centuries longer than they would have in more normal places.

[DungeonDevil]

Feb 4, 2018 20:28:36 GMT -6 MormonYoYoMan said:

Looks more like a knife, as Dungeon Debbie noticed. But if it really is made of Vikings, I guess it would be a Viking knife.

Paul Hogan: "Whoy, that's nowt a noyf, mate!"

I'm pretty sure that's Brünnhilde the Valkyrie's epilady razor!