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Advertising for kulturhistorisk museum in Oslo
Advertising outside kulturhistorisk museum in Oslo. The posters feature the Gjermundbu helmet, treasure and a sword, thus evoking the Viking Age very strongly. The Viking Age exhibits within the museum are diverse, but the advertising focuses only on…
An Post stamp featuring a Viking sword
An Post stamp issued in 2014 to celebrate the Battle of Clontarf anniversary, and depicting a tenth-century Viking sword from Christchurch Place, Dublin. The background is an image from the Annals of the Four Masters.
Bronze Sword or Dagger Cross-Guard on display in the National Museum of Ireland
Bronze sword or dagger cross-guard, Viking Age. From Fishamble Street, Dublin. E172:16054
Chape with Jellinge style decoration
Openwork chape with Jellinge style decoration found at Coppergate, York. Now in The Yorkshire Museum. More information can be found at http://www.yorkmuseumstrust.org.uk/
Copper alloy cross-guard of a sword on display in the National Museum of Ireland
Copper alloy cross-guard of a Viking-Age sword. No locality. X. 2805
Copper Alloy sword pommel on display in the National Museum of Ireland
Sword pommel. Viking Age. No locality. W.25
Finds from a Burial at Nordre Fevang
Finds from a burial at Nordre Fevang. They include an 'Vlfberht' sword, a spearhead, an axe, arrowheads and a shield boss.
Finds from Kaupang i Skiringssal
A sword, axe, spearhead, fish hook, whetstone and other artefacts found during excavations in the 1930s at Kaupang in Skiringssal.
Forged Vlfberht Swords
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…
Gilt copper alloy sword pommel on display in the National Museum of Ireland
Gilt copper alloy sword pommel. No locality. X. 2807
Hilt of the Busdorf Sword
Hilt of the one from three swords, which were found in Busdorf (Germany) situated in the west of Hedeby. This sword belong to the type S according to Petersen classification (Petersen J. 1919. De Norske Vikingesverd. En typologisk-kronologisk studie…
Illustration of twelfth-century 'Smalls Reef' sword guard
An illustration of a sword-guard recovered by a diver near Smalls Reef near Skomer island in Wales, and dating to c. 1100-1125. It is decorated with typical Insular Urnes style motifs.
Iron sword cross-guard from Christchurch Place on display in the National Museum of Ireland
Cross guard from an Iron Sword from Christchurch Place excavations, Dublin. E122:899
Iron sword cross-guard on display in the National Museum of Ireland
Iron cross-guard from a Viking-Age sword, from High Street, Dublin. E43:826
Iron sword found in a male Viking grave near Larne in 1840, at the Ulster Museum.
Iron sword found in a male Viking grave near Larne in 1840, County Antrim. Grave dates from the 10th century. On loan from Duke of Northumberland at the Ulster Museum.
Iron sword from Fishamble St. on display in the National Museum of Ireland
Iron sword with decorated hilt from Fishamble Street, Dublin. Viking Age. 1979:68
Iron Sword on display in the National Museum of Ireland
Found in Lough Derg near Curraghmore, Co. Tipperary. 1988: 226
Iron sword Pommel from Fishamble Street on display in the National Museum of Ireland
Viking-Age sword pommel from excavations of Fishamble Street, Dublin. E172:4345
Iron Sword Pommel from High Street Dublin on display in the National Museum of Ireland
Sword pommel from excavations of High Street, Dublin. E71:8214
Iron sword pommel from High Street on display in the National Museum of Ireland
Pommel from a Viking-Age sword, from excavations of High Street, Dublin. E71:16500