Extremely Fine Rare Scandinavian Norse Viking Sword Petersen Type S - Conserved
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| Reference Number: Avaluer:18960103 | Colour: Waxed Grey Steel |
| Provenance: AP Private Collection formed in the 1990s | Material: Carbonised Steel |
| Viking Weapons: Viking Sword | Type: Viking Norse Sword |
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DescriptionAn extremely fine example and very rare with hilt and guard decoration:Date: Circa:10th Century AD – AD 925 – AD 985PhysicalSize:Overalllength from tip to rear pommel: 98.1 cm:Bladelength: 80.6 cm:Bladewidth to lower guard: 5 cm:Bladewidth to mid-length 4.1 cm:Lowerguard width: 8.5 cmGripLength:10.5 cm:Pommelwidth: 6.8 cm:Weight171...2 grams: [1.71 KG]This is a conserved Norse Viking Type S sword seen in extremely fine condition The entire sword hasbeen forged in the whole and therefore there are no fittings seen: No physicalrestoration has taken place: The sverd has received oxide stabilisation /removal and a careful treatment of museum-grade micro wax: The hilt of the sverd is decorated to the lower cross-guard and terminal pommel: Please see mymacro-generated photography for the full current condition:Condition:Extremely FineA display museum grade example:Provenance:Old Scandinavian private collection formed in the 1950’s: Said to have been recovered in a permafrost context in a mountainous location in the North of Denmark in the 1920's: Typology notes and comments: Typical double-edged Viking sverdsare believed to have developed from Celtic sverd by way of the Roman cavalrySpatha: Because the Roman spatha design developed in a society with a cleardivision of labour, it would not only serve at its intended purpose, but wouldquickly identify the position and status of it bearer: As the Roman Empire cameto its end, the barbarian kings adopted the prestige of the spatha design:During this time, the design of European swords followed other changes incontemporary art: Barbarian decoration started to appear upon older Romanforms: The relatively narrow lens or octagonal cross-section of the spathablade widened and developed shallow fullers. The hilt components also changed:hourglass shaped hilts and silver plating over organic cores changed to moresimple organic grips. The upper and lower guards became more distinct and were formedby riveting together layers of metal and organic material: On the upper guardof these ‘sandwich’- types hilts appeared decorative caps covering the peenedend of the tang:The Viking sverd appears inthe archaeological record with enlargement of these ‘pommel caps’ and the unitingof the sandwiched components into solid upper and lower guards: indeed, theearliest solid guards even have false rivet heads decorating them. From the beginning, the Viking sword diversified into a complex array of forms, many of them finehilt decoration of carved gold and silver, with shimmering twisted wire accentsand inlays: Some of the earlier forms even had beautiful pattern welded blades.In the hands of Viking warlords, these magnificent ‘ancient heirlooms’ must havebeen breath-taking. In this sense, they symbolise all that is frightening andbeautiful in the Viking culture: In a landmark publication in 1919, Jan Petersen produced aworking typology of Viking sverds based upon their hilt designs. He included 26types, designated A-AE along with about 20 special types: His typology showedseveral periods of linear development often interrupted between certain types:The interruptions could be due to a lack of discovery or possibly a mixing of differentregional influences: The Type S sverd is believed to have arose in the 10thCentury from the older type D Viking sverd: The S types retain the largebulbous central lobe of the D types but have a more semi-circular shape: Vikingsverds of Type S and commonly found in Nordic countries and Eastern Europe withonly a small number found in western Europe: Although this sverd is classifiedas a Type S, the slight curvature of the guards would make it a variant of theclassical form: The curvature of the guards may even show Anglo-Saxoninfluences, by way of Type L hilts, upon the older traditional S types: It isthe slight curvature of the guards that makes this form of Viking sverd morecomfortable when used in any other fashion than a straight-arm cut with ahammer grip:
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DescriptionAn extremely fine example and very rare with hilt and guard decoration:Date: Circa:10th Century AD – AD 925 – AD 985PhysicalSize:Overalllength from tip to rear pommel: 98.1 cm:Bladelength: 80.6 cm:Bladewidth to lower guard: 5 cm:Bladewidth to mid-length 4.1 cm:Lowerguard width: 8.5 cmGripLength:10.5 cm:Pommelwidth: 6.8 cm:Weight171...2 grams: [1.71 KG]This is a conserved Norse Viking Type S sword seen in extremely fine condition The entire sword hasbeen forged in the whole and therefore there are no fittings seen: No physicalrestoration has taken place: The sverd has received oxide stabilisation /removal and a careful treatment of museum-grade micro wax: The hilt of the sverd is decorated to the lower cross-guard and terminal pommel: Please see mymacro-generated photography for the full current condition:Condition:Extremely FineA display museum grade example:Provenance:Old Scandinavian private collection formed in the 1950’s: Said to have been recovered in a permafrost context in a mountainous location in the North of Denmark in the 1920's: Typology notes and comments: Typical double-edged Viking sverdsare believed to have developed from Celtic sverd by way of the Roman cavalrySpatha: Because the Roman spatha design developed in a society with a cleardivision of labour, it would not only serve at its intended purpose, but wouldquickly identify the position and status of it bearer: As the Roman Empire cameto its end, the barbarian kings adopted the prestige of the spatha design:During this time, the design of European swords followed other changes incontemporary art: Barbarian decoration started to appear upon older Romanforms: The relatively narrow lens or octagonal cross-section of the spathablade widened and developed shallow fullers. The hilt components also changed:hourglass shaped hilts and silver plating over organic cores changed to moresimple organic grips. The upper and lower guards became more distinct and were formedby riveting together layers of metal and organic material: On the upper guardof these ‘sandwich’- types hilts appeared decorative caps covering the peenedend of the tang:The Viking sverd appears inthe archaeological record with enlargement of these ‘pommel caps’ and the unitingof the sandwiched components into solid upper and lower guards: indeed, theearliest solid guards even have false rivet heads decorating them. From the beginning, the Viking sword diversified into a complex array of forms, many of them finehilt decoration of carved gold and silver, with shimmering twisted wire accentsand inlays: Some of the earlier forms even had beautiful pattern welded blades.In the hands of Viking warlords, these magnificent ‘ancient heirlooms’ must havebeen breath-taking. In this sense, they symbolise all that is frightening andbeautiful in the Viking culture: In a landmark publication in 1919, Jan Petersen produced aworking typology of Viking sverds based upon their hilt designs. He included 26types, designated A-AE along with about 20 special types: His typology showedseveral periods of linear development often interrupted between certain types:The interruptions could be due to a lack of discovery or possibly a mixing of differentregional influences: The Type S sverd is believed to have arose in the 10thCentury from the older type D Viking sverd: The S types retain the largebulbous central lobe of the D types but have a more semi-circular shape: Vikingsverds of Type S and commonly found in Nordic countries and Eastern Europe withonly a small number found in western Europe: Although this sverd is classifiedas a Type S, the slight curvature of the guards would make it a variant of theclassical form: The curvature of the guards may even show Anglo-Saxoninfluences, by way of Type L hilts, upon the older traditional S types: It isthe slight curvature of the guards that makes this form of Viking sverd morecomfortable when used in any other fashion than a straight-arm cut with ahammer grip:
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