Very nice Hellize! is this a quiz? I think the handle could be walnut?
Stained Romanian walnut burl?
Plus a bit of horn.
Did I win it?
hahahahaKnowing Hellize the wood is likely to be salvaged from the remnants of a pirate's peg leg and charred in wyvern fire with a pommel made of auroch bone stolen from among the grave goods of a viking barrow. It's only a mystery because the blade is cursed and he's trying to palm it off onto some poor unsuspecting bushcrafter who will forever be haunted by hopping pirate ghosts.
Aha, maybe a piece of a long sunken piece of a ship...
Can not be Viking though, not many of those sank..... excellent construction..........
I am sure the Vikings sailed along side the coast on their way to Miklagard, stopping freqvently to say Hi to the Vlach maidens waving on the shores......
Thanks!Whatever the wood is, that is a stunning looking knife!
Hmm... I am not really sure about all that But they might have included a few stops here, on their way from Kiev to Byzantium
Trading with them goblins again?Hehehe, no it is not. I really have no idea, what kind of wood it is I received it without a name.
Kiev? No, my friend, Vikings visiting your shores came all the way from Sweden!
They did establish Novgorod as a trading post though. Rurik and his sons as the tale goes. Later his family ruled the Kievan Rus.
But originally Kiev ( and Kievan Rus ) was founded by a bunch of Eastern Slavic tribes.
Vikings all came from Scandinavia ( Sweden, Norway and Denmark) that settled areas around Scandinavia ( Iceland, Greenland, parts of UK, parts of Ireland, Normandie in France, Faeroe Islands, Eastern Finland, Novgorod. Canada even!)
Most Swedish Norse went East, Danish and Norwegian West and North West.
Once they settled outside Scandinavia they ceased to be called Norse.
A Viking is a Norse going on a business trip abroad. Business combined with pleasure, just like today!
The Norse/Vikings taking the job protecting the Sultan in the Ottoman Empire were called Varangians by the Ottomans.
Think mercenary bodyguards extraordinaire.
I hope you do not mind a short history lesson!
You are correct, the christian Byzantium emperor.
I knoe a bit the Northern European history, the sounthern bit not so much.
The turks came several centuries later and took power.