Welcome to the initiation of a new major project — the crafting of a Viking sword! In this inaugural episode, I take you through the intricate process of forging the blade. The design showcases ...

Handing the sword over to researchers ... Some of the earliest Viking blades were created using a technique known as pattern-welding, which involved forging wrought iron and mild steel.

Experts have confirmed that the sword belonged to a Viking, dating it to between 850 and 975. Trevor Penny In November 2023, magnet fisher Trevor Penny was trawling for lost objects in the River ...

But his find that day was much more dramatic: a rusty Viking sword that had been there for more than 1,000 years. The sword, found in the River Cherwell and identified by an archaeological group ...

Here’s how it works. While clearing a field on his farm, a Norwegian man discovered a rare Viking Age sword that's thought to be 1,000 years old. "We were about to start sowing grass on a field ...

Now reunited after approximately 1,200 years, the sword is being celebrated by local archeologists as a particularly unusual and beautiful example of Viking metalwork. “The sword is probably ...

Amateur detectives have uncovered remnants of a Viking-era sword that shows intricate and spectacular workmanship of a millennium ago. Two enthusiasts found, independently of each other ...

Research is underway to learn more about the origins of medieval sword found earlier this month at the bottom of a Polish river, which some experts believe may have belonged to the Vikings.

An 8-year-old girl has become an international darling after her unexpected find — a pre-Viking-era sword that she pulled up from a lake in Sweden. Saga Vanecek was helping her father ...

Trevor Penny was magnet fishing in an English waterway near Oxford when he pulled out a rusty sword. Experts say it’s a Viking sword that is probably more than 1,000 years old. By Isabella Kwai ...