No, and all the references II've been able to track so far refer tot he
Ananova article, and I'm indeed very interested. I wonder if there's
something here beyond the usual "Ulfberht"/"Ingerlii" stuff... they speak
of "decoding individual stamps used by ancient smiths to mark their
work", which sounds promising, but I don't know...
Marc Gener
Instituto de Historia / History Institute (IH-CSIC)
c/Serrano, 13
28001 - Madrid
SPAIN
>On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 13:30:17 +0100 Chris Salter wrote:
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>Anybody know any more about the 9th century steel trade where the
>Germans were supplying the steel for viking blade - see
>
>http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1429695.html>
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