Drawing flies. & again, not wrong forum, a news bit is a media item.
The author of Fóstbræðra saga wrote in chapter 3 that in saga age Iceland, very few men were armed with swords. Of the 100+ weapons found in Viking age pagan burials in Iceland, only 16 are swords.
A sword might be the most expensive item that a man owned. The one sword whose value is given in the sagas (given by King Hákon to Höskuldur in chapter 13 of Laxdæla saga) was said to be worth a half mark of gold. In saga age Iceland, that represented the value of sixteen milk-cows, a very substantial sum.
Swords were heirlooms. They were given names and passed from father to son for generations. The loss of a sword was a catastrophe.
http://www.hurstwic.org/history/arti...king_sword.htm
& Squigg & MisClit if you haven't anything related to the thread to offer, bugger off eh? Head back to TNZ & present your retarded "mudpipes & Vaginas are the same" thesis, or fecis I should say.