Germans blamed for Viking invasion

[lurker4now]

LOL Germans hate brits

Germans blamed for Viking invasion

German arms dealers have been blamed for the Viking invasion of Britain after archaeologists found the swords they used were made in Germany.

The new research has discovered that German weaponsmiths were actively selling their swords to the Viking invaders around the 9th century AD.

The Norse invaders who terrorised the British coastline laying waste to towns and villages were all kitted out by master sword makers from the Rhine.

Russian and Norwegian scientists working with the Russian Museum of Ethnography in St. Petersburg made the discovery by decoding individual stamps used by ancient smiths to mark their work, which linked the swords to the German ancestors.

According to the scientists, the Vikings all used the German-made steel blades that were much prized because they did not break, even during the fiercest fighting, and were of the highest quality.
www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1429695.html

[OdinofOssetia]

Polish historians already knew it decades ago. Those Russians and Norwegians are really belated.

[nordicyouth]

War is temporary; commerce is forever.

You make it sound like a conspiracy, Lurker. Everyone's swords of choice (prior to the Crusades) were of Rhenish manufacture. Germania was not a nation at that time, and was in fact part of the larger Carolingian Empire. Call it trading with the enemy, but anything else, and you're on rotten ice.

[lurker4now]

nordicyouth said:

War is temporary; commerce is forever.

You make it sound like a conspiracy, Lurker. Everyone's swords of choice (prior to the Crusades) were of Rhenish manufacture. Germania was not a nation at that time, and was in fact part of the larger Carolingian Empire. Call it trading with the enemy, but anything else, and you're on rotten ice.

I make it sound like a conspiracy?i didnt write the article!
i make 4 word line "LOL Germans hate brits" and that caused you to make a few lines and call it a conspiracy? ha

remeber im not the one who believes in illuminati,masons and purple umpa lumpa's trying to control all of us.

[mike2]

The poor, poor Germans. So maligned...

[Cerdic]

The Islamic societies of the Mediterranean also prized Rhenish swords. Typically they were exported as blades to be hilted in whatever style was locally popular.

[Ilmatar]

Basicly the links sent by lurker and regularly deemed as either "old news" or "false" by a bunch of people who in most cases aren't even scholars of the field show how little the journalists writing on science or history know about their subject matter.