The sword appears to have connections to the Viking Age, an era that spanned from about 800 to 1050 C.E. During this time, Vikings conducted raids throughout Europe and landed in Poland.

Photographs by ROBERT CLARK-PHOTOGRAPHED AT GUSTAVIANUM, UPPSALA UNIVERSITY MUSEUM Viking warriors fought for riches and reputation with swords such as this, discovered at Gnezdovo, Russia.

Paul Mortimer, who has created replicas of weapons found at Sutton Hoo, in Suffolk - where an Anglo-Saxon burial ship was discovered - said it probably attached a sword scabbard to a warrior's belt ...

Viking warriors have often been portrayed as horned helmet wearing, sword wielding warriors who went into battle with their long hair flowing down their backs - but is this really what they were like?

One such moment happened in 2022 when a museum employee diving in Poland’s Supraśl River stumbled upon a relic lost for centuries — a Viking-era sword. Two years later, after painstaking ...