LOT 0482 Viking Single-Handed Sword with Latin Cross Inlay
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Mid 10th-mid 13th century AD. An iron double-edged Oakeshott's Type X and Petersen's Type X sword with elegant tapering blade and well-formed fullers, an inlaid Latin cross within a circle to one fuller; square-section crossguard of Style 1, stout tang and cocked-hat pommel, Vikings knew this type as gaddhjalt, spike-hilt. See Szendrei, A., Ungarische Kriegsgeschichtliche Denkmaler, Budapest, 1896; Petersen, J., De Norske Vikingsverd, Oslo, 1919; Petersen, J., De Norske Vikingsverd, Saint Petersburg, 2005; Oakeshott, E. The sword in the Age of the Chivalry, Woodbridge, 1964 (1994); Oakeshott, E. Records of the Medieval Sword, Woodbridge, 1991; the sword is a good parallel with a sword in the Landesmuseum, Zurich (Oakeshott, 1991, p.32) although fitted with the more typical (for this typology) style A pommel.1.06 kg, 93.5cm (36 3/4"). From an important private family collection of arms and armour; acquired on the European art market in the 1980s, and thence by descent; accompanied by an academic report by military specialist Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
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