A six-year-old boy in Norway was enjoying a school field trip when he stumbled upon something extremely old and valuable.
First grader Henrik Refsnes Mørtvedt was walking across a field in Innlandet county when he found an object protruding from the ground, the New York Post reported Monday.
Teachers and other students were alerted to the find that turned out to be a 1,300-year-old sword. The group did not try to remove it from the ground but notified local archeologists who said it was from the Merovingian Period around 550 and 880 A.D. which was just before the Viking era.
“The area the sword was found in — Hadeland — translates to ‘Land of…
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