10th Century Viking Sword of Wheeler Type IV

[Jack Loomes]

10th Century

Description: Large straight blade with two wires, of lenticular section; iron hilt hilt with straight oval section, engraved and silvered eyes within lozenges; pommel straight base, the upper wavy, decorated en suite with the hilt.

Notes: See The Sword in the Age of Chivalry, R. Ewart Oakshott, London, 1964, p. 25/26. This specimen is due to category 2 of Behmer and IV of Wheeler.

Length 90.5 cm.

20000.00 € | € 24,000.00

For the Wheeler Typology see here: sword-site.com/thread/854/wheeler-typology-viking-sword-hilts

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