Swedish island-province Ãland's second-largest silver hoard ever was found recently. Dating from the 11th century and consisting mainly of about 1000 German and English coins, it also has some Islamic ones, one from Sigtuna and even one from India, a very rare occurrence. Some hack silver as well, and a piece of gold rod unless I'm mistaken.
The droning noise at the start and end of the above newsreel is a Bronze Age trumpet that had been lying in a bog for almost 2000 years at the time when the hoard was buried and would spend almost another 1000 years there before it was unearthed. Nice try, TV guys.
Via AHIMKAR.
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Hoards of silver. Good stuff.
Viking booty ... arrr. Did vikings say 'arrr'? What is the Swedish equivalent of 'arrr'?
Tenine, yeah, just like anyone in a normal society would eat the apple and not wonder why it fucking fell.
Art, no, Vikings don't go "arrr", they go "wöööh! wöööh!".
"a Bronze Age trumpet that had been lying in a bog for almost 2000 years"
And probably thrown into the bog by the trumpeter's neighbor.
Wöööh!
Outstanding.
And I got to look up how to type an umlaut, my German teacher would be so proud.