11 Elaborate viking swords with decorated hilts

r/europe - Viking swords displayed at Oslo Airport, Norway.

 11 Elaborate viking swords with decorated hilts (handles, grips), ornated blades, home-forged and foreign-made, found in Telemark, Nordland, and Hedmark counties in Norway, dated to AD 800-1000.

File:Cultural History (historisk) Museum Oslo. VIKINGR Norwegian Viking-Age  Exhibition 11 Elaborate swords, decorated hilts, ornated blades,  home-forged and foreign-made, ca 800-1000. Found in Telemark, Nordland,  Hedmark. 4698.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

VÍKINGR – Viking Age exhibition in the Museum of Cultural History of the University of Oslo (UiO Kulturhistorisk Museum) in Oslo, Norway, showing some of the most exquisite objects the museum has from the Norwegian Viking Age. Read more about the objects in English or Norwegian

File:Cultural History (historisk) Museum Oslo. VIKINGR Norwegian Viking-Age  Exhibition 11 Elaborate swords, decorated hilts, ornated blades,  home-forged and foreign-made, ca 800-1000. Found in Telemark, Nordland,  Hedmark. 4707.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

 

 

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