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Forn Hrafn, or Old Raven is made to resemble a humble sword from the beginning of the ninth century Norway.
This sword was made by stock removal (not forging, guys) from a piece of 1070 steel.
It is heavily inspired on C10560 from Kulturhistorisk Museum from Norway. As I didn't have access to more material about this find, I used some of it's measures and invented others.
As you can see on the picture, it is not completely straight. The tang of some original single-edged viking swords have a slightly curve in relation to the blade and after looking at several examples, I think it was made on purpose, so the tip of the blade could be aligned with the tang. This would make them more useful for trusts. Also, the blade itself bent a little bit towards it's edge after the quench. Had it happen with a double-edged blade it would be discarded, but as some originals have this very same curve, I decided to keep on the project.
The blade tapers both in profile and distal to about 75-80% of the original width and thickness at 15cm from the tip.
The hilt was fire etched to look like forged and the blade was aged using salt water, vinegar and ferric chloride.
The scabbard is made of pine wood, covered outside and lined inside with natural wool cloth. The belt bridge is a piece of ancient bog oak, around 6000 years old, from Ukraine and is held in place by some glue and leather cord. The raven decoration is not made in any particular norse artistic style, but rather made to look like some naive work. This fits the whole piece as being product of unskilled or cheap work, as presumably were these type F viking swords.
The handle is also pinewood, wrapped with veg-tanned bovine leather.
Overall length: 93,0cm
Blade length: 78,5cm
Blade width: 5,5cm
Blade thickness at the guard: 0,5cm
PoB: 17,5cm Lower guard width: 10,0cm
Length of the grip: 9,8cm
Weight: 1,390kg
This sword was made by stock removal (not forging, guys) from a piece of 1070 steel.
It is heavily inspired on C10560 from Kulturhistorisk Museum from Norway. As I didn't have access to more material about this find, I used some of it's measures and invented others.
As you can see on the picture, it is not completely straight. The tang of some original single-edged viking swords have a slightly curve in relation to the blade and after looking at several examples, I think it was made on purpose, so the tip of the blade could be aligned with the tang. This would make them more useful for trusts. Also, the blade itself bent a little bit towards it's edge after the quench. Had it happen with a double-edged blade it would be discarded, but as some originals have this very same curve, I decided to keep on the project.
The blade tapers both in profile and distal to about 75-80% of the original width and thickness at 15cm from the tip.
The hilt was fire etched to look like forged and the blade was aged using salt water, vinegar and ferric chloride.
The scabbard is made of pine wood, covered outside and lined inside with natural wool cloth. The belt bridge is a piece of ancient bog oak, around 6000 years old, from Ukraine and is held in place by some glue and leather cord. The raven decoration is not made in any particular norse artistic style, but rather made to look like some naive work. This fits the whole piece as being product of unskilled or cheap work, as presumably were these type F viking swords.
The handle is also pinewood, wrapped with veg-tanned bovine leather.
Overall length: 93,0cm
Blade length: 78,5cm
Blade width: 5,5cm
Blade thickness at the guard: 0,5cm
PoB: 17,5cm Lower guard width: 10,0cm
Length of the grip: 9,8cm
Weight: 1,390kg
Image size
3264x1836px 1.97 MB
Make
Motorola
Model
XT1069
Shutter Speed
1/242 second
Aperture
F/2.0
Focal Length
4 mm
ISO Speed
80
Date Taken
Jan 9, 2017, 4:57:39 PM
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