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Nevilledog

(55,068 posts)
Tue Oct 20, 2020, 04:50 PM Oct 2020

Our Savior has arrived



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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

demmiblue

(39,666 posts)
9. Yeah, a fun story that has been posted numerous times.
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
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...
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. ...
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.

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,780 posts)
10. Thought that looked familiar. It's two years old.
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........
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