Viking sword found in Iceland

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"The Iceland Monitor reports that a group of men out hunting geese in southern Iceland recovered a 1,000-year-old Viking sword. “It was just lying there, waiting to be picked up,” said hunter Rúnar Stanley Sighvatsson. The men handed the artifact over to officials from the Cultural Heritage Center of Iceland. Experts believe the sword had been placed in a grave. An excavation of the site is being planned."

Here's what it looks like...
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