Re: LRT, a Viking axe found in the River Witham, Lincolnshire, in @collectionlinc (my pic):pic.twitter.com/cAeNY3I4o3
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Re: LRT, a Viking axe found in the River Witham, Lincolnshire, in @collectionlinc (my pic):pic.twitter.com/cAeNY3I4o3
A 10thC silver inlaid axe, found Bjerringhøj, Mammen, Jutland in the 19thC, via http://m.historyextra.com/vikings-sea pic.twitter.com/8DYKfqzyX6
Axe w/ gold decoration that may reference legend of Sigurd the dragon-slayer, found on Volga http://blog.britishmuseum.org/2014/02/28/vikings-in-russia/ …pic.twitter.com/r422SPYzcn
@caitlinrgreen Jutland is in Denmark where is Volga as Volga is a river in Russia so is it from that Volga?
@caitlinrgreen ahaan wow i guess there are thousands of miles in between jutland and Volga as volga falls into Caspian nearly touching Asia
@Umarkarim89 The Vikings got about! ;) Don't forget, they used camels to get to Baghdad in the mid-9thC!
@caitlinrgreen by the way my sister visited Stonehenge and my mother got quite curious that what is that so gv an archaeology lecture :)
@Umarkarim89 Oh, well done! Your sister ought to try Avebury too---is fabulous! :)
@caitlinrgreen ahaan well tell her so that she can visit it on one of the weekend travels. She also visited Bath and Shakespeare birth place
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