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Provenance:
Found in the River Seine near the Isle de la Cité
Acquired from Robert-Jean Charles, Paris, 1952
Literature:
Hoffmeyer, cat. no. 24, pp. 35, 67 and 69, figs. 7 and 12
See J. Petersen, De Norske Vikingesverd, 1919; R.E. Mortimer Wheeler, London and The Vikings, London Museum Catalogue: No. 1, 1927, pp. 31-32, fig. 13, I; and for very similar examples see Ian Peirce, Swords Of The Viking Age, 2002, pp. 84-86