A RARE VIKING SWORD, in excavated condition, with broad slightly tapering pattern-welded blade of flat section, the iron hilt comprising short straight quillons and 'Tea-cosy' pommel, both of oval section and inlaid in silver with a design of quatrefoils within silver lines (wooden grips later), 10th/11th Century, probably Rhenish 29¼in. blade
A RARE VIKING SWORD, in excavated condition, with broad slightly tapering pattern-welded blade of flat section, the iron hilt comprising short straight quillons and 'Tea-cosy' pommel, both of oval section and inlaid in silver with a design of quatrefoils within silver lines (wooden grips later), 10th/11th Century, probably Rhenish 29¼in. blade
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