COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — An archaeology student unearthed seven “spectacular” Viking-era curled silver arm rings earlier this year north of Denmark’s second-largest city, a Danish museum ...

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Of the more than 1,000 arm rings in the Swedish History Museum’s collection, only three are made of iron. This doesn’t mean that iron jewelry was uncommon during the Viking Age.

Oath rings like these were common in both Viking and Anglo-Saxon circles. [Related: Some modern-day Scandinavians lack the ancestral diversity of Vikings.] ...