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Viking sword placed on warrior’s left side likely prepared him for ‘mirror afterlife’ – Live Science
The 1,100-year-old steel sword is nearly 3 feet long.
Archaeologists in Norway have unearthed the 1,100-year-old grave of a Viking
warrior, whose steel sword was placed in an unusual spot: on his left side.
Though the sword’s sinistral position is still somewhat perplexing, one theory is that the Vikings perceived the afterlife to be a mirror image of the real world, so whoever buried this warrior may have been accounting for that, said Raymond Sauvage, the excavation’s project manager and an archaeologist at the Norwegian University of Science …
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