Going through the free Routledge journals I stumbled over this article from the Journal of Wetland Archaeology.

Lund, Julie (2008)
Banks, Borders and Bodies of Water in a Viking Age Mentality

She shows a sword (figure 3) found in Oppmanna Sjö in North-Eastern Skåne, which is currently in the Lund Universitets Historiska Museum collection, Code: LUHM 24929
It is mentioned as a Petersen Type D sword, dated from the first quarter of the 9th century (~800-825 AD).
In the Old Danish territory type D's are quite rare with only 2 examples found in the same lake (Sørup Lake in Northern Jutland).

For our discussion it has a bit the same kind of metal hilt decoration as the Egå sword (except no center ring), but one of the Sørup swords is probably an even closer match in that regard (the AM6521 I posted about above in this thread).

Lund Universitets Historiska Museum has to my knowledge not their collection online, so this is the only picture I can find.

The sword might have been described and illustrated in more detail in this article:
Strömberg, Märta (1961)
Untersuchungen zur jüngeren Eisenzeit in Schonen. Völkerwanderungszeit-Wikingerzeit: 2. Katalog und Tafeln
Acta Archaeologica Lundensia Series 4, Volume 4.
Habelt, 91 pp

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Oppmanna Sjö Sword. Type D (~800-825 AD).
Source: Julie Lund (2008).

Another of the best preserved Danish viking swords (when it comes to the amount of metal on the pommel) is an old undocumented find (you are not certain where, but probably around Kalundborg or Holbæk in the western part of Sjælland).
Haven't been able to find any more documentation than that, but I think I read somewhere that the tried some electrolytic conservation back in the day, that actually destroyed more than helped (could explain the clean un-detailed "shine" of the cross-guard and lower part of the pommel, where you would otherwise expect some kind of decoration).

I'm not certain what Petersen Type, it should be attributed to?
It looks like an early type Viking sword, or perhaps even transitory between Iron age and Viking Age (~750 AD?).
Is it a Type B, "særtype" 1 or it could be a Type D with lost ornamentation (or an early type where it wasn't added).
Officially its dated from late 8th century to early 9th century.
The guard and pommel is made of solid silver and it has traces of gold (as the Egå sword).
Blade had largely corroded away, but what is left shows very clearly the pattern-welded fish-bone structure.
Length is 59,4 cm.

[ Linked Image ]
Source: http://news.cision.com/danish-agency-for-cult...k,c1279481
Big size picture: http://mb.cision.com/Public/37/9363321/ad3e72e29b0ad47c_org.jpg

A Danish article on two K-type swords from Nationalmuseet is available on academia.edu.

Pentz, Peter (2012)
To vikingesværd med karolingisk planteornamentik i Nationalmuseets samlinger.
Source: http://www.academia.edu/29992988/to_vikingesv%C3%A6rd.pdf
It has an English summery (page 144-46).

From the old Danish viking age territory only 3 K-type swords have been found.
Two of those are from Hedeby and then one from southern Sjælland - possibly an old unprofessional dig from the mid 19th century from the mound "Møllebanken" at Stårby in Øster Egesborg Parish..

The article gives good pictures (incl. x-ray) of the Møllebanken/Stårby/Øster Egesborg sword and later in the article also pictures or engravings of other k-type swords.
Nationalmuseet also have two Irish swords from Kilmainham, which were acquired by Worsaae in Dublin 1846-1847.
The Møllebanken sword and one of the Kilmainham swords now in Denmark is part of an exclusive little group of 14 k-type swords with plant ornamentation!

2 are from Old Danish territory (Møllebanken and one of the Hedeby swords)
2 are from Norway (Gjersvik, Hordaland & Gravråk Trondheim)
3 are from Ireland (including the one acquired by Worsaae)
2 from Frankish territory (Liepe in Germany and Elst in the Netherlands)
1 unknown find place (in the Wallace collection, London).
That is some interesting distribution!

4 of this group of swords have inscriptions with latin letters on the upper part of the cross guard.
Two of them are Irish, 1 is Norwegian and 1 from Germany.

A sword from Kilmainham (now in Dublin) has "hartolfa" on the guard.
A sword from Ballinderry crannog has "hiltipreht" as has the sword from Liepe. Also the Ballinderry crannog sword has an +ulfberht+ inscription on the blade.
The author states that one of the swords should have the inscription "hlither" and that must be the Norwegian sword from Gravråk, but to my eyes it actually looks more like "Hiltipreht" (?).

The Norwegian sword from Gjersvik doesn't have a name on the guard, but is also an inscribed +ulfberht+ like the Ballinderry crannog sword. So none of them are +ulfberh+t examples.

Hiltipreht must be equivalent to Hildebrecht in modern German. Hiltipreht likely a variant of Hildiberht meaning "Battle-Shining".
Hartolfa is interesting of we have a name retaining an older iron age Germanic masculine -a ending; perhaps Hart-olf-a? Could this be a contraction of "Hard/strong-Wolf" as a masculine personal name?
Hlither could have the first part the element ON hlíð or OHG (h)lita meaning "slope, hillside" in some kind of contractive name-combination.

I would say that this is much more like personal names. The amount of Hiltipreht - 2(3?) out of 4 - indicates it is far more likely that the name inscribed is the name of the giver, rather than the receiver.

The plant ornamentation is apparently predominately vine ornamentation on the swords (the Hedeby sword an exception) and must be Carolingian (& Christian) art decoration.
Combining sword type and vine-ornamentation early part of 800 AD seems to be holding as a dating.

So these swords is in my opinion gifts from someone to possible allies OR to warriors that have served in a comitatus under the named individual in question?
Another possibility is that Hiltipreht was a very common name (much less likely).

There is a single edged sword that was found as a stray find at Suure-Jaani, Viljandimaa in Estonia that has a hilt showing marked similarities to the Riga pommel and the hilts of the Telemark swords. The sword is described in "The Migration Period, Pre-Viking Age and Viking Age in Estonia." The sword is dated to right around 1000 AD, and I have always assumed that the Riga pommel and Telemark swords with similar hilts were about the same age and perhaps showing an influence from or were actually made east of the Baltic. A few swords with similar pommels discovered in Lithuania and adjacent areas of the eastern Baltic are described by Kazakavecius also. There is also mention made in one of the Icelandic sagas of a Scandinavian warrior carrying a Curonian sword into battle in England in the 11th century. Overall, it seems very likely that these atypical type Z hilts were manufactured in western Lithuania or somewhere in the east Baltic region between the late 10th century and 11th century.

Hi Mark,

I just have a bound print-out of the PDF. It is funny, right after posting I was looking at "Swords of the Viking Age" by Peirce and thinking exactly what you said about the resemblance to the Lough Derg sword. I have a vague recollection of a ferrule find from the Baltic, but can not remember the exact find place or what it looked like at the moment. As to Kazakevecius, I will have to review what I have, I think that all of the swords are covered in the book and that the other papers mostly refer to battle knives without hilts rather than swords. As to the Icelandic sagas, the reference to the Curonian sword is found in the same saga that mentions the Scandinavian warrior hoisting his enemy in the air on the blade of his aetgir, I will have to review my Icelandic saga literature to find the exact passage.

Scott

That is Egil's saga.