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Record Viking Silver Hoard Found in Danish Garden Image: Nordjyllands museer

Record Viking Silver Hoard Found in Danish Garden

From Dagens Nyheter · () Swedish

Translated from Swedish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Construction work on a patio in a Danish garden uncovered the country’s largest known silver hoard from the Viking Age.
  • The finder described the discovery as the biggest surprise of their life.

A patio-building project in a Danish garden has uncovered the country’s largest known Viking-era silver hoard.

The person who found the treasure described the discovery as “the biggest surprise of my life” in a press release.

It turned out to be the biggest surprise of my life.

— The finderThe person who discovered the Viking silver hoard described the find.
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Originally published by Dagens Nyheter in Swedish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.