Swords of the Viking Age
Supplementary Materials

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Boydell & Brewer description, details and order page

English translations from Jan Petersen's The Norwegian Viking Swords

Sword illustrations from Petersen (1919) arranged by type (pdf)
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Ian Peirce examines a sword at the Universitetets Oldsaksamling, Oslo, Norway

Assessments of 'Wieldability' by Ian Peirce for many of the swords included in SVA (pdf)

Overall alphabetic listing of sources cited in SVA

Unabridged Index for SVA (pdf)

Supplementary materials by SVA page number:

 plate I  Lorange's (1889) caption page for plate VI (pdf)
 plate II  Lorange's (1889) caption page for plate V (pdf)
 plate III  Lorange's (1889) caption page for plate I (pdf)
 plate VI (top)  further description and illustrations of entire sword
 plate VI (bottom)  further description and illustrations of entire sword
   46  Petersen's (1919) colour plate I
   58  drawing of hilt of WK-21 from Coffey and Armstrong (1910)
   63  Hiltipreht inscription on 1928:382
   66  Plunket's (1847) watercolours of WK-5, WK-31 and WK-33
   86 (middle)  further description of boy's sword and associated spear and axe
 114  Petersen's (1919) colour plate III
 124  wider illustration of detail from 12th century font in Verona

19 Dec 2002