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Experts believe that the sword is about 1500 years old.
(Museum of Jönköpings löns)
During the summer, an 8-year-old girl in Sweden accidentally discovered an estimated 1,500-year-old Viking sword, Minnesota state-run radio reported on Thursday.
Saga Vanecek, a former resident of Minneapolis, was jumping stones into a lake in southern Sweden when she discovered the sword in "muddy clay," her father, Andy Vanecek, wrote in a Facebook post .
"[S]he took something that I thought was a stick and presented it as Pippi Longstocking, "he said.
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Vanecek contacted an archaeologist the next day to inspect the sword. The archaeologist determined that it was the Iron Age, about 1,500 years old, wrote Andy Vanecek. He stated that the sword was the first of its kind "in Scandinavia".
Andy Vanecek said the family had concealed his July discovery to the press because she feared that "if this discovery is made public too soon, there would be a lot of people there, perhaps destroying our ability to find things. later".
The discovery was reported for the first time on Wednesday, which brought museum researchers to the area for inspection. Mikael Nordström, who works at the Jönköping County Museum in Jönköping, Sweden, said his team had discovered "another prehistoric object; a brooch from the same era as the sword.
He speculated that the area could have been a "place of sacrifice".
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Another museum staffer discovered Wednesday an estimated coin from the 18th century, reported MPR. No other artifacts were found.
According to MPR, the Vanecek moved from Minneapolis, Sweden, in 2017 to move closer to the maternal side of the family.
"What's good is that I'm a big fan of the Minnesota Vikings and it looks like a Viking sword," Andy Vanecek told reporters.
