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Blacksmiths recreate Viking Age anchor using ancient techniques in Denmark

An international team of blacksmiths is recreating a Viking Age anchor using techniques and materials believed to have been used more than 1,000 years ago.

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00:16We're forging a small Viking anchor and we're using techniques identical to what would have
00:23been used at the time. Those techniques have been determined from x-ray radiography and various analyses and the material
00:32we're using is what's known as blumery iron. So that's the material that they would have been using as well.
01:01It's not the steel that has been made in a steel mill somewhere. It is iron that has been smelted.
01:07So even the fuel we're using, everything is a lot more historical, even the location we are at.
01:27You don't need to have a great sort of fantasy to see the Viking ships coming and sailing to here
01:36and maybe try to attack the place or trying to start the raid to England or to Ireland or whatever
01:45they want to raid.
02:00So you can't do that.
02:04You can't do that.
02:05I'm here.
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