Friday, December 14, 2012

Viking Sword update

If you want more information on the discovery of the 10th C Viking sword and the older pre-Viking sword in the River Shannon, the national Museum of Ireland sent me this youtube link for some more information.  

They also have a twitter account 
(https://twitter.com/NMIreland
and facebook page 
(https://www.facebook.com/pages/National-Museum-of-Ireland/) for continuing updates.

Apparently the grip on the Viking sword has been mineralized but in the process preserved.  The grip bindings are rarely found so that is a good bit of new information to be extracted by conservators.

1 comment:

  1. Thank you for sharing the links about Viking sword. They are pretty useful.

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