A Sword Of Viking Type, Oakeshott's Type XI Late-10th To...
A Sword Of Viking Type, Oakeshott's Type XI
Late-10th To Mid-12th Century
In excavated condition blackened overall, with broad tapering double-edged blade with central fuller over most of its length on each side, and extending slightly into the tang, the fuller on each side of the forte with copper-inlaid cross potent, hilt comprising quillons of rectangular section slightly tapering to the tips, flat tapering tang, and large Brazil-nut pommel
88 cm. blade, 100.5 cm. overall
Provenance
Sold in these Rooms, Antique Arms & Armour, 23 May 2018, lot 174
For two swords of very similar type, one in the Nationalmuseet, Copenhagen, and the other formerly in the D'Acre Edwards and Ewart Oakeshott Collections, see Ewart Oakeshott, Records Of The Medieval Sword, 1991, p. 55 XI.3 and p. 61. XI.8. See also a sword in the Suomen kansallismuse, Helsinki (inv. no. NM 11840) described and illustrated in Ian Peirce, Swords of the Viking Age, 2002, pp. 132-133
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A Sword Of Viking Type, Oakeshott's Type XI
Late-10th To Mid-12th Century
In excavated condition blackened overall, with broad tapering double-edged blade with central fuller over most of its length on each side, and extending slightly into the tang, the fuller on each side of the forte with copper-inlaid cross potent, hilt comprising quillons of rectangular section slightly tapering to the tips, flat tapering tang, and large Brazil-nut pommel
88 cm. blade, 100.5 cm. overall
Provenance
Sold in these Rooms, Antique Arms & Armour, 23 May 2018, lot 174
For two swords of very similar type, one in the Nationalmuseet, Copenhagen, and the other formerly in the D'Acre Edwards and Ewart Oakeshott Collections, see Ewart Oakeshott, Records Of The Medieval Sword, 1991, p. 55 XI.3 and p. 61. XI.8. See also a sword in the Suomen kansallismuse, Helsinki (inv. no. NM 11840) described and illustrated in Ian Peirce, Swords of the Viking Age, 2002, pp. 132-133
