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Experience the ancient art of sword-making by forging a Viking-age sword from a rusted coil spring. This DIY tutorial takes you through the step-by-step process of transforming a seemingly useless ...
Nils Ögren. Blacksmithing - Forging a Viking Dane Axe. Posted: May 18, 2025 | Last updated: May 18, 2025. In this video, I forge a Viking-style battle axe, known as a "Dane axe." ...
Blacksmith Art & Renaissance Festival draws talent of all ages. Paula Owen, Correspondent. FITCHBURG – In its 15th year, the area’s premier blacksmith festival has once again expanded, ...
The clang of hammer on metal rings out across the Danish fjord as sweating blacksmiths work to painstakingly recreate an anchor that once hung from a Viking longship 1,000 years ago.
Experts suspect the grave is from the Viking period in the eighth or ninth century C.E. The grave likely belonged to a blacksmith, because Norberg uncovered a pair of blacksmith's tongs.
A blacksmith says he is looking forward to taking people of all ages on a trip back in time after being given permission to create a replica Viking longhouse. David Watson, who lives in Greengill ...
The pre-show experience showcases a recreated 9th-century Viking settlement featuring a cookhouse, vegetable patch, and Viking cottages. A working blacksmith's forge is also part of the village, where ...
In the heat of their raging forge, the team from the U.K.'s National School of Blacksmithing is helping to rebuild the "Skudelev 5," whose remnants are on display in nearby Roskilde's Viking Ship ...