A metallurgical study of some viking swords
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https://doi.org/10.3989/gladius.2009.218Keywords:
Metallurgy, metallography, crucible steel, Viking swords, Ulfberht inscriptionsAbstract
While «pattern-welded» swords have been found all over Europe from sites dating from the Migration Period and into the Early Middle Ages, they were steadily supplanted during the Viking period by swords made out of a few pieces of iron and steel, or even a single piece of steel. Swords with «Ulfberht» or related inscriptions were the most famous of these. The results of the metallurgical study of 44 specimens from «Ulfberht» swords, as well as some other Viking-age swords, together with electron microanalyses carried out on selected examples, are presented here.
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