Forged Vlfberht Swords
Title
Forged Vlfberht Swords
Subject
News media coverage of . . Viking swords
Description
An account in The Guardian (27 December 2008) discusses how a modern collector had taken a sword thought to be made by the famous smith Ulfberht to the Wallace Collection, where it was found to be a fake. The sword was not of the same high quality as the genuine swords from Ulfberht's forge. This led to further analysis of other swords, and the discovery that many were not of the high quality associated with the Ulfberht swords. Clearly there was a lot of forgery going on.
Creator
Maev Kennedy
Source
The Guardian
Publisher
The Guardian
Date
27/12/2008
Contributor
Administrator
Rights
(c) Guardian News and Media Limited
Format
Website
Language
English
Type
Website
Coverage
Viking Age, Europe, Scandinavia, Norway, Sweden, Denmark.
Geolocation
Social Bookmarking
Item Relations
Item: Iron sword found in a male Viking grave near Larne in 1840, at the Ulster Museum. | dcterms:relation | This Item |
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