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The date is from about 900 to 1000. The decoration is under strong Norse influence Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

here we must once more conjecture, as no sword of the type, at least those known to the present writer, has been handed down to us with its grip entire, save perhaps for the famous Essen sword to which we shall shortly refer. From the absence of rivet-holes in the tang in the generality of these