THE NORWEGIAN VIKING SWORDS
by JAN PETERSEN (1919)
translated by Kristin Noer (1998)

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Notes to this Electronic Edition

Table of Contents

The Sword Types		54
	Single-edged swords without guards	55
	I. The Transitional Types	59
	Type A	59
	Type B	61
	II The Earliest Viking Age	66
	Type C	66
	Type D	70
	...
	III. Type H - I c. 800 - c. 950	89
	Type H	89
	...
	IV. Type K and its Distinctive Sub-Types - 9th Century	105
	Type K	105
	...
	V.
	Type M	117
	...
	VI. The 10th Century	126
	Type O	126
	Type X	158

Notes to this Electronic Edition

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