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Jasper B.
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 Posted: Sat 26 Oct, 2024 5:36 am Post subject: Ulfberht swords: +VLFBERH+T vs +VLFBERHT+ |
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Hi
On wikipedia, there is a nice table listing the distribution of known Ulfberht swords.
However, this table does not show the spelling, most notably vs (but I seem to remember more variations exist), use on those finds.
Does anyone know of a source that lists the distribution of Ulfberht swords, that also lists which spelling variation were found where, and from which period?
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M. Nordlund
Location: Sweden Joined: 03 May 2017
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Ingo Petri has written a good paper called "VLFBERHT swords: Origin, material, and manufacture" in 2019, I got it from academia.edu.
Furthermore the paper "Hypereutectoid steel in early medieval sword production in Europe" by Paweł Kucypera and Jiří Hošek I also remember touching on the subject though it has been some time since I looken at it.
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Dan Howard
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This thread covers the subject fairly well.
http://myArmoury.com/talk/viewtopic.php?t=28739
The analysis done by the Institute for Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Hannover is pretty conclusive. We can say with a fair degree of certainty that Ulfberht was a Frankish smith working in the Taunus region in Germany (most likely in either the Lorsch or Fulda monastery).
Author: Bronze Age Military Equipment, Pen and Sword Books
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This is a standard topic