Good day,

Anyone know if any curved migration/viking swords like Jeff Helmes Baltic Viking Sword we’re available then?

Best regards,

Barrett Hiebert

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I would not consider that sword curved rather its single edged.

The shape of that repro it's a bit off from any archeological example I have seen, but I have probalby not seem them all..
All examples I know of from scandinavia are straight single edge, and not curved. (Petersen type 14, seem to be most popular in Norway)

I recently read that single edged viking and migration period swords are a lot more common that first thought. I dont remember the article though unfortunately.

As to curved, I have never seen an example of that

We did have this recent find mentioned at the beginning of the month elsewhere on the forum

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Described as Scandinavian type, with a hint of a curve. Apparently from a battle fought on the site in 1091, so at the later end of the time range.

That’s a really interesting artifact. It would be nice to have a better shot of it. I wonder if the curve has happened with time or is original.

I wonder how long it is.

It's a bit confusing. They bring up the battle fought in 1091 but then state that the blade is of "early Viking" origin dating it to the 8th. C.

It really doesn't look like an 11th. C. specimen so that makes more sense.

The articles I can find aren't very clear, but one in "Nauka w Polsce" clearly says it was loose find, kinda random and cannot be dated because was found with no context.

So it doesn't seem anyone connects it to the battle of 1091, it was just found during excavations that were aimed at locating the battlefield mentioned in chronicle.

It's apparently cautiously dated to the 8th century indeed, based on analogy from Haukeli.