A second sword, without a wooden handle, pommel or scabbard but with the blade and tang intact, was found in a neighbouring room. The weapon would have been valuable at the time, leading ...
19 news release. Visser gave his find to the museum, where archaeologists identified it as the pommel cap, or handle end, of a 1,000-year-old Viking sword. The Fries Museum shared photos of the ...
or long swords, while the fourth, shorter weapon was identified as a ring-pommel sword. They had well-fashioned handles made of wood or metal. Leather strips and pieces of wood and metal belonging ...