Lot 103
103
A RARE VIKING SWORD, in excavated condition, with broad slightly tapering pattern-welded blade of flat section, the iron hilt comprising short straight quillons and 'Tea-cosy' pommel, both of oval section and inlaid in silver with a design of quatrefoils within silver lines (wooden grips later), 10th/11th Century, probably Rhenish

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A RARE VIKING SWORD, in excavated condition, with broad slightly tapering pattern-welded blade of flat section, the iron hilt comprising short straight quillons and 'Tea-cosy' pommel, both of oval section and inlaid in silver with a design of quatrefoils within silver lines (wooden grips later), 10th/11th Century, probably Rhenish
29¼in. blade

Lot Essay

For the hilt form (Peterson's Type X) see Oakeshott, The Sword in the Age of Chivalry, p. 27. For comparable decoration on a sword in the State Historical Museum, Stockholm, see Seitz, Blankwaffen, I, 1965, colour plate III

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