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.

Files

An Vlfberht sword

Geolocation

Social Bookmarking

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