Experience the ancient art of sword-making by forging a Viking-age sword from a rusted coil spring. This DIY tutorial takes you through the step-by-step process of transforming a seemingly useless ...

In this video, we are forging a traditional Shamshir sword from a piece of rusty railway track. This project showcases the process and craftsmanship involved in sword making. Previous forging projects ...

So far, no one has been able to forge a metallurgically accurate Ulfberht. Produced between 800 to 1000 AD, ... Thousands of Viking swords have since been found, ...

Archaeologists believe the Linschoten Sword was forged to straddle both worlds.

He spends his weekends forging Viking swords because his father collected sabres – and because he comes from Viking country. But his weekend hobby also serves as the perfect metaphor for his day ...

Additionally, the sword bears marks of its use in battles, evident in micro-cracks and chips accumulated over more than a thousand years. Preliminary studies suggest that this sword was forged in the ...

Those scholars dated the sword to between 850 and 975, concluding the weapon once belonged to a Viking. In the mid-ninth century, when the sword was forged, the Vikings were at odds with Britain ...

Trevor Penny was magnet fishing in an English waterway near Oxford when he pulled out a rusty sword. Experts say it’s a Viking sword that is probably more than 1,000 years old.