[Regia-NA] "Viking Age" Norwegian Saexs

William R. Short list-regia-na@lig.net
Fri, 17 Oct 2003 15:35:20 -0400


"Schuster, Robert L." <SchusterRL@umsystem.edu> wrote:

>We have tons of info on saexs during the Vendel period and we have some=20
>limited info on saexs during the Viking Age in the UK but can anyone site=
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>examples of saexs being used in any of the "Viking Age" Norwegian locales?

It seems like there are good examples in the Icelandic literature, but I=20
don't have the references in front of me.  For example, didn't Grettir get=
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his sax K=E1rsnautr from a grave mound in Norway?

Bill