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irisblue

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Thu Oct 4, 2018, 09:23 PM Oct 2018

It has begun...

BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) Tweeted:
Girl, 8, pulls a 1,500-year-old sword from a lake in Sweden https://t.co/rAaoU2WtOD




Saga Vanecek found the relic in the Vidöstern lake while at her family's holiday home in Jönköping County. snip......The sword was initially reported to be 1,000 years old, but experts at the local museum now believe it may date to around 1,500 years ago.....snip.....The Jönköping county museum said that its investigation of the lake is unfinished and it could yet turn up more ancient items.



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It has begun... (Original Post) irisblue Oct 2018 OP
The Sword in the Stone kinda...cool! Kajun Gal Oct 2018 #1
Lady of the Lake is another related legend, I think. yonder Oct 2018 #2
Does she get to rule Sweden now? redwitch Oct 2018 #3
⚔️She gets everything.⚔️ Those are the rules. ⚔️ irisblue Oct 2018 #4
Too bad that lake wasn't somewhere in the United States! n/t CaliforniaPeggy Oct 2018 #5
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