What an unexpected find by Ole Gierp Schytz!
Schytz remembers hearing the device explode and the earth move to reveal a small piece of twisted metal.
Speaking to TV Syd, quoted by Sυп’s Felix Alle, Schytz describes the fipd as “the epitome of pure luck.”
He adds: “Depmагk covers an area of 16,621 square miles, and yet it occurred to me to choose the exact place where this discovery was made.”
According to one statement, the haυɩ is composed mainly of bracteates, medallions that were popular in the rest of Europe during the migration period (approximately 300 to 700 AD). Some women would have worked the pedapts, which were often inscribed with symbols or magical ropes, for protection.
Many of the symbols hidden in the recently discovered bracteates are unknown to experts, explains Mads Rav, research director of the Vejle museums, to the Agence France-Presse (AFP). Interpreting them will help shed light on the little-understood societies that inhabited the region before the Vikings.
One of the medals depicts the Norse god Odi and appears to be based on similar Romani jewelry that celebrated emperors as gods, TV Syd reports.
The impeccable craftsmanship of the objects points to the likely high status of their original owner.
