VIKING SWORD WITH LOBED POMMEL 9th century AD A hand-forged iron sword of Petersen's Type K with broad (51mm at the hilt) blade featuring a fuller to each face and slightly rounded tip; the lower guard a rectangular block with rounded ends, recess to the underside to accept the shoulders of the blade; the tang broad and flat; the pommel formed as a rectangular block with three graduated lobes to the upper face, separated by deep channels. 1.3 kg, 95cm (37 1/4"). Fine condition. Provenance Property of a Middlesex gentleman; acquired in the 1980s. Literature Cf. Peirce, I. Swords of the Viking Age, Woodbridge, 2002, items C25576b, J1. Footnotes The sword is typical of its type in most respects. Its tang is a little longer than is usual for a sword of this period with only a gentle taper towards the upper end. The pommel features only three distinct lobes instead of the more usual five or seven, but the outer edge of the lateral lobes is scooped, a feature also seen on the example in Universitets Oldsaksamling Oslo (Peirce, p.68-9), which suggests that the smith copied the design from an example with five lobes, of which the small outer lobes were vestigial.
VIKING SWORD WITH LOBED POMMEL 9th century AD A hand-forged iron sword of Petersen's Type K with broad (51mm at the hilt) blade featuring a fuller to each face and slightly rounded tip; the lower guard a rectangular block with rounded ends, recess to the underside to accept the shoulders of the blade; the tang broad and flat; the pommel formed as a rectangular block with three graduated lobes to the upper face, separated by deep channels. 1.3 kg, 95cm (37 1/4"). Fine condition. Provenance Property of a Middlesex gentleman; acquired in the 1980s. Literature Cf. Peirce, I. Swords of the Viking Age, Woodbridge, 2002, items C25576b, J1. Footnotes The sword is typical of its type in most respects. Its tang is a little longer than is usual for a sword of this period with only a gentle taper towards the upper end. The pommel features only three distinct lobes instead of the more usual five or seven, but the outer edge of the lateral lobes is scooped, a feature also seen on the example in Universitets Oldsaksamling Oslo (Peirce, p.68-9), which suggests that the smith copied the design from an example with five lobes, of which the small outer lobes were vestigial.
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