Archeologists find Viking sword in southern Turkey

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Archeologists find Viking sword in southern Turkey

Searching through the ancient city of Patara in Turkey's Mediterranean resort city of Antalya, Turkish archeologists uncovered a sword dating back to over a millennium.

Lead excavator Professor Havva Iskan Isik of Akdeniz University told Anadolu Agency that they identified a Viking sword from the ninth or 10th century.

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/culture-and...turkey/1315809

[Andromega123]

Vikings were great traders and that's a well-known think that they had relations with Eastern Roma which based on profit for both sides.
I think it was belonging to a Varangian guard or some Viking trader which came to Istanbul.

[Rædwald]

We wuz mercenaries