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A Fine And Rare Viking Sword Of Petersen Type S And Wheeler Type III
Second Half Of The 10th Century

27 November 2013, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Fine And Rare Viking Sword Of Petersen Type S And Wheeler Type III
Second Half Of The 10th Century

In excavated condition, with broad double-edged blade with wide shallow fuller over most of its length along both sides to the point, the forte on one side deeply incised with a rune mark, hilt comprising thick ovoidal cross-piece decorated with inlaid silver interlace in Mammen style, flat tapering tang, and lobated two-piece pommel decorated en suite with the cross-piece, the central lobe with a strand of plaited silver wire on either side
79.7 cm. blade, 94 cm. overall

Footnotes

For a very similar example with almost identical decoration in the Nationalmuseet, Copenhagen (inv. no. C16430), see Ian Peirce, Swords Of The Viking Age, 2002, pp. 106-107

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