Migration Period sword
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The Migration Period sword was a type of sword popular during the Migration Period and the Merovingian period of European history, particularly among the Germanic peoples. It later gave rise to the Ca
Germanic type ring sword – France, 6th century
Hilt of a Vendel period sword found at Valsgärde
Depiction of a late Roman spatha on a diptych (dated to 406 AD)
5th-century Alamannic gold hilt spatha found at Villingendorf
Viking sword
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The Viking Age sword or Carolingian sword is the type of sword prevalent in Western and Northern Europe during the Early Middle Ages.
Migration Period sword
…Merovingian period of European history (c. 4th to 7th centuries AD), particularly among the Germanic peoples. It later gave rise to the Carolingian or Viking sword type of the 8th to 11th centuries AD. The blade was normally smooth or showed a very shallow fuller, and often had multiple bands of pattern-welding…
Two 10th-century sword hilts (Petersen type S) with Jelling style inlay decorations, with reconstructed replicas, on display in Hedeby Viking Museum.
Two men armed with swords, detail of an illustration from the Stuttgart Psalter (fol. 7v), dated c. 830.
Depiction of a Carolingian sword with scabbard (donor portrait in the St. Benedikt in Mals, South Tyrol, early 9th century)