Hi there,

I am currebtly working on a design for a corporate logo for an Iron ore mining company situated in Norway. I had the thought of using an image of a sword from the Viking era.

Can someone help me with finding an image of a sword from the region and era.

Any historical references would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

Jason

PS. Its not every day I get to mix work with a genuine interest

:)

... a shield image might also be useful :)

This might be helpfull:

http://stud.imma.dk/deltahak/nils.anderssen/norskesverd.htm

A lot of nice drawings and pictures :)

If you google "viking shield" you will find many good examples.

Good luck with your project!


N.

Hi again,

I am hopeing that some of the knowledgeable people on this forum might be able to assist me in this research.

I am looking for steel related snippits of information or quotes that I can adapt to use for a brochure that I am creating for an Iron mining company in the north of Norway.

I have quickly written an example, but please please, remember that I am very new to the history of Viking and western swords in general. In fact I have only just started :D

So this is the bit, that will need a lot of correcting but here it is anyway.

"After the Iron age came the period commonly referred to as the 'Age of the Vikings" AD 780 -1100. Iron was considered more valuable than gold and silver. Carbon added to ore from the iron rich areas such as Kirkines, was smelted to create steel of varying properties. Some very hard and brittle whilst others were softer and more malleable. The Norsemen excelled in the forging of steel and produced some of the first pattern welded steels (often, but incorrectly referred to as damascus steel) and created swords that rival the blades from the famous smiths of Japan, albeit at some 400 years earlier. Examples of these blades still exist in Museums in Norway and throughout Europe."

Please feel free to edit, add, throw it in the trash,, whatever.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

Jason

Well, this article is on this very website,

http://www.myArmoury.com/feature_geibig.html

Than you can look at www.vikingsword.com (appropriately named).


After that you can also do a google image search by viking sword in google

http://images.google.it/images?hl=it&q=vi...&gbv=2

which will lead to many fine replicas images and to pics of some originals.

From that you could surely morph out something useful enough to represent a viking sword.

Thanks Elling

That info is exactly what I need, thank you. Woops the spelling was also my typo.

How much earlier was pattern welded steel being produced?

Can you think of any other achievements, iron wise
that might be attributed to Norway?

Thanks again

Cheers

Jason

The practice of piling and pattern welding is known as far back as 3rd and 7th century B.C. Etruscan swords. Due to corrosion in the surviving examples, we don't really know how attractive those swords were cosmetically.