Wheeler Type VI Viking Sword

[Jack Loomes]

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Viking sword to 1000 Wheeler type VI.

L 94 cm

Viking sword to 1000th Iron corr. Pommel trilobal upper part (Nordman type T2) and slightly upward curved base, four-sided guard something ortwärts bent. Both with silbertauschiertem decor. Snails and ligaments. Double-edged Sword (Oakeshott Type X). Table I

A well-preserved, late Viking sword.

Seitz, Edged Weapons I, pp. 100 and 106 Oakeshott, Records of the Medieval Sword, page 51 Thompson, Ancient Weapons in Britain, 84 ff

Source: www.fischerauktionen.ch/auktion/objektDetails.aspx?mode=highlight&catid=56411&oid=57244#overlay

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