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A Rare Viking Sword Of Oakeshott Type XII10th/11th Century
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Find your local specialistA Rare Viking Sword Of Oakeshott Type XII
10th/11th Century
10th/11th Century
78.5 cm. blade, 92.5 cm. overall
Footnotes
This sword appear to be related to a group of seventeen whole or incomplete examples of the type known to have been found in Finland in eleventh century graves. For a related example found in a cemetery before 1870 and now in the Suomen Kansallismuse, Helsinki (inv. no. NM1174:1), see Ian Peirce, Swords of the Viking Age, 2002, pp. 138-139
See also Jorma Leppäaho, Späteisenzeitliche Waffen aus Finnland: Schwertinschriften und Waffenverzierungen des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts, 1964, pp. 70-75
Offered with a letter of expertise addressed to Peter Finer from Ian Peirce and dated 11 March 2003








