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Sword and buckles, nails and wire embroidery all suggested these had been Viking cremations ... than a grizzly legend after all. The skin, ancient though it was, had once belonged to a cow.

An eight-year-old girl found a pre-Viking era sword while swimming in a lake in Sweden during the summer. The sword was initially reported to be 1,000 years old, but experts at the local museum ...