Girl pulls 1,500-year-old Viking sword from Swedish lake

[Zorro]

An 8-year-old girl unexpectedly pulled an Iron Age sword from a Swedish lake — and it happened to be the “first sword of its kind to ever be found in Scandinavia.”

Saga Vanecek found the sword while playing in Lake Vidösten this past summer nearby her family’s summer home.

"I was outside in the water, throwing sticks and stones and stuff to see how far they skip, and then I found some kind of stick," Saga explained to The Local.

She was going to put it back in the water until she realized it was a sword.

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/nation-world/ny-news-girl-finds-1500-old-viking-sword-in-sweden-20181005-story.html

Kinda cool.

[Downtown Hound]

1. Man, something like that was my dream when I was that age

As it was I had to settle for collecting Native American arrowheads that washed up on the beaches of Clear Lake in California. Some of them were pretty cool, but not rare Viking sword cool.

[Yavin4]

2. Doesn't this make her King or something?

I think that's how this goes right?

[ret5hd]

4. Exactly what I was thinking!

Let's wait and see if ol' King Carl XVI Gustaf (the current king) has her disappeared or offed!

[Alpeduez21]

6. Nope

Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' 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

[Jake Stern]

3. Me at age 8: Yay! I found five dollars

Meanwhile in Sweden. . . .

[Rizen]

5. Cool.