Ancient Authentic Viking Langsaks Seax Sword VI - VII Century AD 91 cm Long

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Ancient Authentic Viking Langsaks Seax Sword VI - VII Century AD 91 cm Long:
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Ancient Authentic Authentic Migration Period Sword, Used By Viking and Germanic Tribes.This is a great addition to any collection, very rare item!Restoration: mechanical cleaning, desalting, covered with anti-rust solution.Material: IronWeight: 701 gr, 1.55 lbLength: 91 cm, 36\"Found near Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine.
The Viking dagger or called the seax, or sax, was the universally carried knife in Northern Europe. The Viking dagger was carried and used by the Saxons, Angles, Vikings and Germanic tribes. Viking Daggers, use probably dated before the fall of Rome and continues on into the early Middle Ages. From small knives with 3-4 inch blades to actual swords with blades of 27-28 inches and always single-edged, the profile of the seax varied a great deal. The original version of this large knife served from camp work to cutting work, on shipboard, and for fighting if a sword or axe was not available.In modern archaeology, the term seax is used specifically for a type of sword or dagger typical of the Germanic peoples of the Migration period and the Early Middle Ages, especially the Saxons, whose name derives from the weapon.A native industry producing \"Germanic swords\" then emerges from the 5th century, contemporary with the collapse of the Western Roman Empire. The Germanic spatha did not replace the native seax, sometimes referred to as gladius or ensis \"sword\", but technically a single-edged weapon or knife. It rather establishes itself, by the 6th century, at the top of the scale of prestige associated with weapons. While every Germanic warrior grave of the pagan period was furnished with weapons as grave goods, the vast majority of the 6th- to 7th-century graves have a seax and/or a spear, and only the richest have swords.In the 8th century, Frankish sword smiths increasingly gained access to high quality steel imported from Central Asia, where a via import from Central Asia, where a crucible steel industry began to establish itself.[15] The earliest types of \"Viking swords\" according to the typology of Petersen (1919) are dated to the second half of the 8th century, while the \"Viking sword\" proper (and notably the Ulfberht type) emerges by the turn of the 9th century.