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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOur Savior has arrived
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NoelCaslerComedy
@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
NoelCaslerComedy
@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
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soothsayer
(38,601 posts)1. That's so cool
Hail!
LakeArenal
(29,949 posts)2. Sounds good to me.
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)3. A couple years ago.
Nevilledog
(55,068 posts)4. She's needed to grow up a little to wield the sword.
Party pooper.
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)6. Oops. I'm sorry.
I would take it back if I could.
demmiblue
(39,666 posts)9. Yeah, a fun story that has been posted numerous times.
I wish people would at least give a few snippets, though.
Bantamfancier
(401 posts)5. A classic Monty Python
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...
... some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!
Yavin4
(37,182 posts)12. In the U.S. ...
Supreme executive power derives from a farcical electoral college, and not a mandate from the masses.
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)7. Cool!
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,780 posts)10. Thought that looked familiar. It's two years old.
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.
The Jonkoping county museum said that its investigation of the lake is unfinished and it could yet turn up more ancient items.
KY........
Nevilledog
(55,068 posts)11. Go join the party poopers in the corner
TheBlackAdder
(29,981 posts)13. Or, she is really The Lady of the Lake!
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