The internet is buzzing about an 8 year old girl who pulled an ancient sword out of a
lake while she was swimming in Sweden.
Now social media users are saying she should be crowned as ‘swedens true queen’ and
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Before I get into this video, tell me, whats the coolest thing you’ve ever found.
8 year old saga nevecek is making headlines because she found a sword in a lake in southern
Sweden back in july on her summer vacation.
Before you go and say IO this is late why are you reporting on this now if she found
it back in july.
Shh you.
The find has just been announced because there are worries that tourists are going to overwhelm
the lake which is on the shore of Lake Vidostern so the museum kept it a secret until after
the summer.
Saga and her family moved to Sweden from minessota last year, they have a summer home near Lake
Vidostern.
While saga was skipping stones, She was feeling around in the water, when she grabbed something
with her hand that she thought was a stick.
She was about to put it down, But she realized that the stick actually had a handle.
She lifted the sword out of the lake and shouted “daddy I found a sword, and her dad ran
to her side to see what she found.
And yep, it was a full on sword.
An ancient sword.
Sweden experienced a drought this summer so the water at the vidostern lake was especially
low, which may have contributed to Saga finding the sword.
First estimates dated the sword at 1500 years old.
Its 85 cm long, and according to experts, it dates back to the 5th or 6th century ad,
which actually predates the Vikings.
The Vikings came about in scandanavia in the 7th centuries and remained prevalent through
the middle ages.
So what was going on in Sweden in the 5th and 6th centuries?
Ancient Swedes were a powerful tribe who also had longships like the Vikings.
Their history is pretty foggy before the 6th century thanks to the romans destroying everything,
gotta love those romans, but the inscriptions on artefacts that did survive state that the
people of Scandinavia spoke proto-norse.
Then in the 6th century, there were two tribes, named the suehans and the suetidi.
They lived in scanza and they supplied black fox sins to the Roman market.
Sweden’s king in the 6th century was King Eadgils.
We don’t know much about who the sword could have belonged to right now, but we do know
how old it is and what its made of.
The sword is made out of wood, metal and leather.
Its extremely well preserved for how old it is but also because it was in water.
Unfortunately Saga did not get to keep it.
Right now conservationists have the sword and are going to be working on restoring it
over the next year.
It should be available for public viewing after next year.
So how is it that a sword ended up in this Swedish lake?
An expert at the Jonkoping country museum, Mikael Nordstrom said that they don’t know
how the sword ended up in the lake.
Archeologists used to think that the site the sword was found used to be the grave of
a wealthy nobleman.
But now they think that the area could have been a place of sacrifice.
I’m sorta picturing one of those Viking burials.
You now, have you seen the show Vikings?
Where they put the body of a diceased person on a boat with offering and push them on to
the lake, then one of them shoots a fire arrow at the boat and sets it on fire?
Yeah something like that.
Other searches in the area by museum staff have uncovered a brooch from the same time
period, but there weren’t any other notable finds.
Social media is now calling for saga to be named the queen of Sweden, you know cuz of
the whole king Arthur thing.
You know, whoever manages to pull Excalibur should be the next king of England.
Isnt twitter so cheeky.
So I guess this is culturally relevant right now because Sweden just had an inconclusive
election on September 9th.
Carl Fridh Kleberg tweeted.
Ah finally an end to our post-election limbo, tell the political parties someone else has
been chosen by fate to form a government.
Also I love that her name is saga.
I feel like its fate guys.
Sadly I don’t think Saga will be named the queen of Sweden but she will forever be known
as the 8 year old girl that found an ancient sword in a lake, so I feel like that’s alright
too.
Alright guys that’s all I have for you on that story, its time to read out some comments.
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