Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - An extraordinary Viking treasure connected to King Harald Bluetooth has been found on the island of Rügen in the Baltic Sea in northern Germany.
Wonderful Viking Age necklaces, rings, bracelets, beads, brooches, and hundreds of coins were discovered by an amateur archaeologist and a 13-year-old student who were searching the island with a metal detector.
Harald Bluetooth, 1500s fresco in Roskilde Cathedral, Zealand, Denmark. Public Domain
According to excavation director Michael Schirren, the silver coins are of "outstanding importance” because “similar types of coins have so far only been found in the territory of the Danish empire, such as at Husby and Harndrup”. More than 600 silver objects were found, and experts say these items date back to the reign of the famous Danish Harald "Bluetooth" Gormsson (910-987).
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