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Europa del Nord
length 95 cm.
Broad, straight, double-edged blade, finely worked in pattern-welding, giving the surface a harmonious appearance similar to wood. The central part of the blade featuring a slight fuller at the middle while the tip is oval. On one side, near the forte, there is a ring-shaped silver inlay. Straight quillon with rounded ends; the pommel, made in two pieces and slightly offset in relation to the quillon, and has a large part of its original geometric decoration in silver and copper. The tang, similarly executed in pattern-welding, is straight on one side and oblique on the other.
length 95 cm.
Broad, straight, double-edged blade, finely worked in pattern-welding, giving the surface a harmonious appearance similar to wood. The central part of the blade featuring a slight fuller at the middle while the tip is oval. On one side, near the forte, there is a ring-shaped silver inlay. Straight quillon with rounded ends; the pommel, made in two pieces and slightly offset in relation to the quillon, and has a large part of its original geometric decoration in silver and copper. The tang, similarly executed in pattern-welding, is straight on one side and oblique on the other.
Specialist Notes
While today pattern-welding is essentially an aesthetic choice, in the Viking Age it responded above all to the need to make use of every possible fragment of ferrous material (bloom) and to homogenise an iron that was by nature highly heterogeneous and w
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