In Norway, during a class walk, schoolboy Henrik Refsnes Mørtvedt noticed an object sticking out of the ground, which turned out to be an ancient sword approximately 1300 years old.
If you think that archaeologists have long dug up all of Europe, extracting all the artifacts of the past from the ground, then you are very mistaken. In Norway, a boy found a real Viking sword simply during a school trip.
As reported by Bild, at the end of April, six-year-old Henrik Refsnes Mørtvedt, a first-grade student at a school in the town of Brannbu (80 km north of Oslo), went on a school excursion with his class. During a walk in a field, he noticed something sticking out of the ground that looked like the hilt of a very old sword.
The boy pulled the object to the surface and instantly became the youngest archaeologist on the planet. The rusty and slightly bent piece of iron turned out to be a sword about 1.3 meters long, which was later determined to be from the early Viking era.
"This part was sticking out! It had rust and dirt on it. I decided to lift it and see what it was," the boy told the Hadeland newspaper.
Local authorities were promptly informed about the find.
"We believe the sword is about 1300 years old, meaning it dates back to the Merovingian era or the beginning of the Viking age," specialists later stated.
Archaeologists consider the find to be unique and suggest that the sword belongs to the Merovingian era or the very beginning of the Viking age. Experts also noted that the boy and his teachers did the right thing by immediately reporting the find to the authorities and archaeologists.
