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Nevilledog

(55,134 posts) Tue Oct 20, 2020, 04:50 PM Oct 2020

Our Savior has arrived

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@CaslerNoel
Our Savior has arrived.
Saga Vanecek at Lake Vidösten in a photo posted to social media by her father Andy,
Girl, 8, pulls a 1,500-year-old sword from a lake in Sweden
Eight-year-old Saga Vanecek found a pre-Viking-era relic while playing in a lake in Sweden.
bbc.com
1:45 PM · Oct 20, 2020

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Our Savior has arrived (Original Post) Nevilledog Oct 2020 OP

That's so cool soothsayer Oct 2020 #1

Sounds good to me. LakeArenal Oct 2020 #2

A couple years ago. Newest Reality Oct 2020 #3

She's needed to grow up a little to wield the sword. Nevilledog Oct 2020 #4

Oops. I'm sorry. Newest Reality Oct 2020 #6

Yeah, a fun story that has been posted numerous times. demmiblue Oct 2020 #9

A classic Monty Python Bantamfancier Oct 2020 #5

Oh but if I went 'round sayin' I was Emperor, just because... IHaveNoName Oct 2020 #8

In the U.S. ... Yavin4 Oct 2020 #12

Cool! Sherman A1 Oct 2020 #7

Thought that looked familiar. It's two years old. KY_EnviroGuy Oct 2020 #10

Go join the party poopers in the corner Nevilledog Oct 2020 #11

Or, she is really The Lady of the Lake! TheBlackAdder Oct 2020 #13

soothsayer

(38,601 posts)

1. That's so cool

Reply to Nevilledog (Original post)

Tue Oct 20, 2020, 04:52 PM

Oct 2020

Hail!

LakeArenal

(29,949 posts)

2. Sounds good to me.

Reply to Nevilledog (Original post)

Tue Oct 20, 2020, 04:53 PM

Oct 2020

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)

3. A couple years ago.

Reply to Nevilledog (Original post)

Tue Oct 20, 2020, 04:56 PM

Oct 2020

Nevilledog

(55,134 posts)

4. She's needed to grow up a little to wield the sword.

Reply to Newest Reality (Reply #3)

Tue Oct 20, 2020, 04:59 PM

Oct 2020

Party pooper.

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)

6. Oops. I'm sorry.

Reply to Nevilledog (Reply #4)

Tue Oct 20, 2020, 05:04 PM

Oct 2020

I would take it back if I could.

demmiblue

(39,941 posts)

9. Yeah, a fun story that has been posted numerous times.

Reply to Newest Reality (Reply #3)

Tue Oct 20, 2020, 05:12 PM

Oct 2020

I wish people would at least give a few snippets, though.

Bantamfancier

(401 posts)

5. A classic Monty Python

Reply to Nevilledog (Original post)

Tue Oct 20, 2020, 05:03 PM

Oct 2020

Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

IHaveNoName

(102 posts)

8. Oh but if I went 'round sayin' I was Emperor, just because...

Reply to Bantamfancier (Reply #5)

Tue Oct 20, 2020, 05:09 PM

Oct 2020

... some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!

Yavin4

(37,182 posts)

12. In the U.S. ...

Reply to Bantamfancier (Reply #5)

Tue Oct 20, 2020, 05:26 PM

Oct 2020

Supreme executive power derives from a farcical electoral college, and not a mandate from the masses.

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)

7. Cool!

Reply to Nevilledog (Original post)

Tue Oct 20, 2020, 05:07 PM

Oct 2020

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,796 posts)

10. Thought that looked familiar. It's two years old.

Reply to Nevilledog (Original post)

Tue Oct 20, 2020, 05:15 PM

Oct 2020

Story is from 4 October 2018.

Cool as hell regardless. She's probably a celebrity in her home town.

(snip)

Saga's discovery led the museum and local council to carry out further excavations at the site, finding a brooch from the 3rd Century.

The Jonkoping county museum said that its investigation of the lake is unfinished and it could yet turn up more ancient items.

KY........

Nevilledog

(55,134 posts)

11. Go join the party poopers in the corner

Reply to KY_EnviroGuy (Reply #10)

Tue Oct 20, 2020, 05:18 PM

Oct 2020

TheBlackAdder

(29,981 posts)

13. Or, she is really The Lady of the Lake!

Reply to Nevilledog (Original post)

Tue Oct 20, 2020, 05:31 PM

Oct 2020

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