vendel 9 weapon knife

This is a video of the finished weapon knife seen in various stages of completion in my earlier videos. It’s a reproduction of the knife from Vendel grave no. 9 (dating from viking age, not the earlier actual “Vendel“ age most graves there are from) but made shorter than the original. What details were missing on the Vendel 9 find has been filled in with related finds from other swedish finds from Adelsö, Birka and Gotland as well as Latvian finds. These knives were likely high-status sym