Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Norwegian farmer finds 1,000-year-old Viking sword on family farm A Norwegian man clearing his farm found a rare 1,000-year-old ...

The intricate motif, at first glance a tangle of curving lines, conceals two animal figures in profile facing each other along the upper and lower edges. Kristoffersen noted that "it is possible that ...

A farmer clearing a field in Norway picked up metal “trash” and found a rare 1,000-year-old weapon, archaeologists said and photos show. Photo from the Rogaland County Municipality In a southern ...

UNDATED (CNN) -- A sword is probably the last thing you'd expect to find on a hike -- especially one that's more than a millennium old. But that's what happened to a man in Norway who recently ...

An 8-year-old girl, originally from Minnesota, made a fantastic discovery playing in a Swedish lake: a pre-Viking era sword. Saga Vanecek, who lives with her family in Sweden after spending seven ...

A Norwegian farmer recently came across what he thought was a chunk of scrap metal in his field. Just before throwing it away, he took a second look: He realized the object had a distinct shape, ...

A metal detectorist unearthed a Viking sword fragment shaped like wild boars, a first-of-its-kind find for the Netherlands, photos show. Photo from the Fries Museum On a farm in the Netherlands, a ...

On a farm in the Netherlands, a metal detectorist stumbled on an intricately shaped item. His small find turned out to be an “extraordinary” fragment of a unique Viking weapon. Sander Visser swept his ...