Saturday, October 28, 2017

Thinking About Buying A Sword?

You get what you pay for.






Here's Albion, the people who make these swords.

If you spend the money, handle them with care, these swords are not a "sword like object". 

They're for real.

Saturday, October 14, 2017

Viking Fort Reveals Secrets of Danish King's Elaborate Military Network

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The discovery of a Viking-age fortress in Denmark has shed new light on a network of military sites built by the 10th-century Danish king Harald Bluetooth, according to archaeologists.

Bluetooth — for whom the eponymous digital network technology is named — is credited with building several large, circular fortresses, or "ring forts," around Denmark in the 970s and 980s, as he unified the unruly Viking clans of the region into a centralized kingdom.

Until a few years ago, the sites of four such ring forts were known, and in the decades since they were found, debate has raged among Danish historians about these structures' purpose. [See More Photos of the Viking-Age Fortress in Denmark]

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