Girl dubbed 'Queen of Sweden' after drawing ancient sword from lake

[Peter1469]

Girl dubbed 'Queen of Sweden' after drawing ancient sword from lake

A young girl finds a 1500 year old (pre-Viking) sword in a lake in Sweden. The article gets the King Arthur part wrong, but still a neat find.

An eight-year-old girl has discovered a pre-Viking-era sword in a Swedish lake, prompting locals to name her the "Queen of Sweden."

Swedish-American Saga Vanecek found the ancient artifact while playing in Vidöstern lake during the summer near her family's holiday home in the south of the country.


Experts at a local museum estimate the sword to be around 1,500 years old, according to local reports.


"I was outside in the water, throwing sticks and stones and stuff to see how far they skip, and then I found some kind of stick," Vanecek told The Local, a Swedish news website.


"I picked it up and was going to drop it back in the water, but it had a handle, and I saw that it was a little bit pointy at the end and all rusty. I held it up in the air and I said 'Daddy, I found a sword!' When he saw that it bent and was rusty, he came running up and took it," she continued.


The report added that locals joked that the discovery made his daughter the new "Queen of Sweden," drawing parallels with legend of King Arthur who was bequeathed a right to rule after being handed the Excalibur sword by the Lady of the Lake.



Mikael Nordström, an expert from the Jonkopings Lans Museum, described the discovery of the relic as spectacular, saying that it was "about 85 centimeters long, and there is also preserved wood and metal around it."

[jigglepete]

"Look, just because some moistened bint lobs a scimitar at me, doesn't make me king then..."

I know, this is the serious side, but I couldn't resist...

Interesting story indeed.

[Lummy]

Romans were in Scandinavia by the 4th Century, venturing into Sweden north of Vidostern Lake in Jonkoping County, where the girl found the sword.

https://www.quora.com/Did-the-Romans...an-territories

Geographical distribution of the Latin inscriptions on artifacts found in Northern Europe:

The sword was found in Vidostern Lake, one of the two large lakes appearing at the northeast corner of this map just below the red dot.

And now you're historically up to date. LOL

Swedish knives are good knives. Cody Lundin used a Swedish-made Mora bushcraft knive frequently on the Dual Survival television show.

[Common]

How cool is this



An eight-year-old Swedish-American girl came across an exciting find swimming at her local lake, when she pulled an ancient sword from its depths.
"It's not every day that one steps on a sword in the lake!" Mikael Nordström from Jönköpings Läns Museum said when explaining the significance of the find.


But that's exactly what happened to Saga Vanecek, who found the relic at the Vidöstern lake in Tånnö, Småland earlier this summer.


"I was outside in the water, throwing sticks and stones and stuff to see how far they skip, and then I found some kind of stick," Saga told The Local.


"I picked it up and was going to drop it back in the water, but it had a handle, and I saw that it was a little bit pointy at the end and all rusty. I held it up in the air and I said 'Daddy, I found a sword!' When he saw that it bent and was rusty, he came running up and took it," she continued.


The water at the lake by the family's summer house was low this year due to drought, which may have been part of the reason Saga was able to reach the sword. Because of this, the family was putting a buoy out in the lake to warn other boats of an underwater slab of concrete which was dangerous in the low water levels.


"I asked Saga to bring the buoy, but she was taking her time like a kid does, playing in the water," her father, Andy Vanecek, recalled. "I was getting impatient because the World Cup game was about to start!"






https://www.thelocal.se/20181004/eig...word-from-lake

[valley ranch]

Yeh ~ nice find ~ bet her papa was happy ```

[valley ranch]

Yep ~ very nice find ~ good for her ~ and her dad ```

[donttread]

Girl dubbed 'Queen of Sweden' after drawing ancient sword from lake

A young girl finds a 1500 year old (pre-Viking) sword in a lake in Sweden. The article gets the King Arthur part wrong, but still a neat find.

It needs a good sharpening but she could be a bad ass in 10-15 years if she practices . LOL. Nice story.