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Viking sword found in central Norway grave

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DIG DEEPER at Norwegian SciTech News:
https://norwegianscitechnews.com/2020/08/viking-sword-found-in-grave-in-central-norway/

It has been more than a thousand years since anyone held this sword. But why was it placed on the left side of the grave?

During the Viking Age – probably sometime in the 800s-900s – a man died in the village we call Vinjeøra today, south of Trøndelag county. He was buried with a full set of weapons: axe, spear, shield and sword.

Some 1100 years later, archaeologist Astrid Kviseth bends over his grave and painstakingly cleans his sword. Soon she will pick it up from the ground and become the first person to hold it in her hands since Viking times.

“The fact that he was buried with a full set of weapons tells us that this was a warrior, and in Viking times and the early Middle Ages, most warriors were free men who owned their own farms,” says Raymond Sauvage, an archaeologist at the NTNU University Museum and project manager for the excavation.

The weapon grave was found during the excavation of a farm and burial ground from Viking times, which archaeologists are investigating in connection with the expansion of European route E39 route through Vinjeøra.

“The law in the Middle Ages dictated that a farmer had to procure weaponry. First you were required to get an axe and a shield, and eventually you could also have a spear and a sword,” says Sauvage.

DIG DEEPER at Norwegian SciTech News:
https://norwegianscitechnews.com/2020/08/viking-sword-found-in-grave-in-central-norway/
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