Viking Sword Discovered in Iceland

News September 6, 2016

SHARE:

SKAFTARHREPPUR, ICELAND—The Iceland Monitor reports that a group of men out hunting geese in southern Iceland recovered a 1,000-year-old Viking sword. “It was just lying there, waiting to be picked up,” said hunter Rúnar Stanley Sighvatsson. The men handed the artifact over to officials from the Cultural Heritage Center of Iceland. Experts believe the sword had been placed in a grave. An excavation of the site is being planned. For more, go to "Artifact: Viking Sword."

  • Features July/August 2016

    Franklin’s Last Voyage

    After 170 years and countless searches, archaeologists have discovered a famed wreck in the frigid Arctic

    Read Article
    (Courtesy Parks Canada, Photo: Marc-André Bernier)
  • Letter from England July/August 2016

    Stronghold of the Kings in the North

    Excavations at one of Britain’s most majestic castles help tell the story of an Anglo-Saxon kingdom

    Read Article
    (Colin Carter Photography/Getty Images)
  • Artifacts July/August 2016

    Spanish Horseshoe

    Read Article
    (Courtesy Peter Eeckhout)
  • Digs & Discoveries July/August 2016

    Is it Esmeralda?

    Read Article
    (Courtesy David Mearns)