true or false: most viking blades where frankish

[Jim McDougall]

Originally Posted by celtan

There's a veddy intedestink little book, very nice to read, called "The archeology of weapons", by Oakeshott. If willing to read a little more on the subject, check page 143.

You're warned, the book is good, you may not be able to stop reading...

: )

LOL! That truly is a 'veddy interesting little book' ! Actually it was the very first book on weapons I ever owned, I think it was back in 1965 (the book was published in '62). It really is very good, and unleashed a lifelong passion for me.
Another wonderful book on this subject is "Swords of the Viking Age" by Ian Pierce (copyright 2002, Lee A. Jones, Ewart Oakeshott, and Ian Pierce).
Lee was instrumental in producing this outstanding reference, in addition to authoring two of the key chapters.
Actually I knew of Lee's important work on Viking weapons before I actually met him years later, due to the important article he wrote in 1997, "The Serpent in the Sword: Pattern Welding in Early Medieval Swords".

I hope we will see some more discussion on these fantastic weapons...which truly are addicting!!