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Old 11th March 2016, 10:35 PM   #12
Timo Nieminen
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Originally Posted by broadaxe
Crude replica of a Viking-style utility knife, with the handle bent the wrong way, a common mistake.
While these (with the handle bent the "right" way) are sold as Viking knives, Viking women's knives, etc., I don't know of any Viking examples. Others have asked this question and looked, but not found any examples.

There are apparently Scandinavian (Danish) Iron Age examples.
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