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LOT 0942
Viking Iron Cross-Potent Inlaid Sword
(Iron, 1.2 kg, 97 cm.).
Circa 11th century AD. An iron hand-forged sword with Type X pommel and lenticular square-section crossguard; the blade gently tapering with shallow fuller, the piled construction visible in the core and three inlaid brass crosses potent below the hilt.
Provenance
ex Gorny & Mosch
Literature
cf. Peirce, I. Swords of the Viking Age, p.132 sword from Vammala, Finland.
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