'At first I thought 'is this for real?,'' archaeologist Joakim Wintervoll told Newsweek.
Along with Jo-Simon Frøshaug Stokke from the Museum of Cultural History in Oslo, Wintervoll arrived at the site and was able to confirm the identity of the sword.
On further investigation, the grave also contained a lance, glass bead gilded with gold, a belt buckle and a broach."It is easy to think, based on the sword and the lance, that a warrior was buried here," Wintervoll said."Possibly someone used to mounted combat. The findings of gilded glass beads, gold-painted belt buckle and a broach with hand-crafted animal figures on it, show that this person was a some-one of means.
Interestingly, a grave with similar contents was unearthed close by Heiland's home in 1930."It is too early to day if these two graves have a connection, but it is interesting that they are relatively close and have almost identical finds in them," Wintervoll said.
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