Viking Jewelry Found

[LongBlade]

Some neat pictures of a cache of jewelry found in Denmark.

Not a lot of detail.

Most images can be found here: http://www.livescience.com/38374-viking-jewelry-photos.html

But there's an interesting article at Fox. The finds are at a modest farmhouse. However, there's a legend that a king lived nearby, which might explain things. There's even a hint that some of this could be tied to Beowulf!

"Legend has it that this was the place where the first Danish dynasty, the Scyldings, had its royal seat," writes Tom Christensen, also of the Roskilde Museum, in an article published in the book "Settlement and Coastal Research in the Southern North Sea Region" (Verlag Marie Leidorf, 2010). He notes that some members of this dynasty even appeared in the famous poem "Beowulf."

Archaeological research has revealed that Lejre appears to be a rich site. In 1850, a hoard consisting of "four silver vessels, a whetstone, a weight, a necklace and a disk-shaped silver ingot" was found in the nearby hills, Christensen noted. A monument 282 feet long made of rocks arranged in the shape of a ship was also reconstructed in later excavations.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/07/26/viking-jewelry-unearthed-in-denmark/?intcmp=features#ixzz2aAIuOfg1

[TheCommandTent]

Very cool!

[Staggerwing]

Thanks for posting that, LB!

[Boggit]

Very cool! Thanks for sharing LB. :)

[LongBlade]

You're welcome :)