06-23-2018, 12:31 PM
I think we have a lot of myths about viking swords, sorry to say. Ulfberht ais a class of it self, somewhere about 100-170 Ulfberht swords have been found made during the rime 700-1000 = 300 years - so if there was a person named Ulfberht he probebly lived during the 700...
Then we have normal viking swords with everything from good quality to bad quality - and we also have swords made for burials abd swords made for showing of = swords that could not be used in sword fights.
Viking swords spanns from useless bling swords to tye beat quality there is...
What we can se is that the normal viking did not have a sword, he had an axe, spear and a big sax knife. Some if the leaders have a sword - but we so not know the quality of those swords.
Next thing is that we have found what we have named "weapon graves". Earlyer a weaponngtave was a grave for a man - but after DNA testnings - some of the weapon graves are Female graves = femails buried with dull weapon equipment...
In the sagas are storlek about special weapons, often swords, and those swords was named. Perhaps thise swords was Ulfberht swords with real high quality? And the sagas also tells about Valkyrias, Female warriers.
So, we have just start to relearn about some things from the viking time...
You know, our history in Skandinavia are 12000 years old and Skandinavia is full if graves from that time, from burials innthe ground that nit can be seen - to big stoneage monuments of big stones, to grave hills 65 meter wide - to small mounts. Where ever you are in Scansinavia - the graves are there, and it is our forefathers graves.
Of cause, in folklore, the biggest gravehills are graves over Kings and they are often given names from Kings - och are names Kingsmounts.
The biggest monuments of Kingsmounts are in Old Uppsala on the East coast of Sweden, the graves was made adound the year 500 and there is three big gravehills in a raw. Two of this three Kingsmounts seams today be graves over femails, not men. One is certen, one is discussed maybe Female. Other famues gravehills fromnthemmodern same time is gravehills over both a man and a Female... So our discussions here can be rather hard sometimes becouse if this, Kingsmounts are perhaps queenmounts...
if you like to se pictures from the Kingsmounts in old Uppsala, search: gamla Uppsala - and look at the pictures.
You can also search on" gravhogar. Gravfalt, stenkammargravar, gangrifter, to se other types of Scandinavian grave monuments.
If you have questions, just ask
Thomas
Then we have normal viking swords with everything from good quality to bad quality - and we also have swords made for burials abd swords made for showing of = swords that could not be used in sword fights.
Viking swords spanns from useless bling swords to tye beat quality there is...
What we can se is that the normal viking did not have a sword, he had an axe, spear and a big sax knife. Some if the leaders have a sword - but we so not know the quality of those swords.
Next thing is that we have found what we have named "weapon graves". Earlyer a weaponngtave was a grave for a man - but after DNA testnings - some of the weapon graves are Female graves = femails buried with dull weapon equipment...
In the sagas are storlek about special weapons, often swords, and those swords was named. Perhaps thise swords was Ulfberht swords with real high quality? And the sagas also tells about Valkyrias, Female warriers.
So, we have just start to relearn about some things from the viking time...
You know, our history in Skandinavia are 12000 years old and Skandinavia is full if graves from that time, from burials innthe ground that nit can be seen - to big stoneage monuments of big stones, to grave hills 65 meter wide - to small mounts. Where ever you are in Scansinavia - the graves are there, and it is our forefathers graves.
Of cause, in folklore, the biggest gravehills are graves over Kings and they are often given names from Kings - och are names Kingsmounts.
The biggest monuments of Kingsmounts are in Old Uppsala on the East coast of Sweden, the graves was made adound the year 500 and there is three big gravehills in a raw. Two of this three Kingsmounts seams today be graves over femails, not men. One is certen, one is discussed maybe Female. Other famues gravehills fromnthemmodern same time is gravehills over both a man and a Female... So our discussions here can be rather hard sometimes becouse if this, Kingsmounts are perhaps queenmounts...
if you like to se pictures from the Kingsmounts in old Uppsala, search: gamla Uppsala - and look at the pictures.
You can also search on" gravhogar. Gravfalt, stenkammargravar, gangrifter, to se other types of Scandinavian grave monuments.
If you have questions, just ask
Thomas