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The Pernik sword is an early medieval double-edged iron
Iron

Iron is a chemical element with the symbol Fe and atomic number 26. Iron is a Group 8 element and period 4 element. Iron is lustrous and silvery in color....
 sword
Sword

A sword is a long, edged piece of metal, used as a cutting, thrusting, and clubbing weapon in many civilizations throughout the world. The word sword comes from the Old English language wikt:sweord, cognate to Old High German swert, Middle Dutch swaert, Old Norse sver? Old Frisian and Old Saxon swerd and Dutch langua...
 unearthed in the ruins of the medieval fortress of Krakra
Krakra of Pernik

Krakra of Pernik , also known as Krakra Voevoda or simply Krakra, was an 11th-century feudal lord in the First Bulgarian Empire whose domain encompassed 36 castles in what is today southwestern Bulgaria, with his capital at Pernik....
 near Pernik
Pernik

Pernik is a city in western Bulgaria with a population of 91,883 . It is the main city of Pernik Province and lies on both banks of the Struma River in the Pernik Valley between the Viskyar, Vitosha and Golo Bardo mountains....
, western Bulgaria
Bulgaria

The state of Bulgaria , Scientific transliteration Balgarija, officially the Republic of Bulgaria has played a significant role in the Balkans in south-eastern Europe for over fourteen centuries....
, on 1 January 1921. It bears an inscription in silver
Silver

Silver is a chemical element with the chemical symbol Ag and atomic number 47. A soft, white, lustrous transition metal, it has the highest electrical conductivity of any element and the highest thermal conductivity of any metal....
 inlay on the blade. The sword is preserved in the National Archaeological Museum of Bulgaria
National Archaeological Museum (Bulgaria)

The National Archaeological Museum is an archaeology museum in the centre of Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. It occupies the building of the largest and oldest former Ottoman Empire mosque in the city, B?y?k camii , built from stone around 1474 under Mehmed II....
 in Sofia
Sofia

Sofia , is the Capital and largest city of the Bulgaria, with 2,5 million people living in the Capital Municipality. It is located in western Bulgaria, at the foot of the mountain massif Vitosha, and is the administrative, cultural, economic, and educational centre of the country....
 under inventory number 2044. The sword is in length and up to in width.

The inscription, written in the Latin alphabet
Latin alphabet

The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world today. It evolved from the western variety of the Greek alphabet called the Cumae alphabet, and was initially developed by the Ancient Romes to write the Latin....
, was long considered incomprehensible.






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The Pernik sword is an early medieval double-edged iron
Iron

Iron is a chemical element with the symbol Fe and atomic number 26. Iron is a Group 8 element and period 4 element. Iron is lustrous and silvery in color....
 sword
Sword

A sword is a long, edged piece of metal, used as a cutting, thrusting, and clubbing weapon in many civilizations throughout the world. The word sword comes from the Old English language wikt:sweord, cognate to Old High German swert, Middle Dutch swaert, Old Norse sver? Old Frisian and Old Saxon swerd and Dutch langua...
 unearthed in the ruins of the medieval fortress of Krakra
Krakra of Pernik

Krakra of Pernik , also known as Krakra Voevoda or simply Krakra, was an 11th-century feudal lord in the First Bulgarian Empire whose domain encompassed 36 castles in what is today southwestern Bulgaria, with his capital at Pernik....
 near Pernik
Pernik

Pernik is a city in western Bulgaria with a population of 91,883 . It is the main city of Pernik Province and lies on both banks of the Struma River in the Pernik Valley between the Viskyar, Vitosha and Golo Bardo mountains....
, western Bulgaria
Bulgaria

The state of Bulgaria , Scientific transliteration Balgarija, officially the Republic of Bulgaria has played a significant role in the Balkans in south-eastern Europe for over fourteen centuries....
, on 1 January 1921. It bears an inscription in silver
Silver

Silver is a chemical element with the chemical symbol Ag and atomic number 47. A soft, white, lustrous transition metal, it has the highest electrical conductivity of any element and the highest thermal conductivity of any metal....
 inlay on the blade. The sword is preserved in the National Archaeological Museum of Bulgaria
National Archaeological Museum (Bulgaria)

The National Archaeological Museum is an archaeology museum in the centre of Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. It occupies the building of the largest and oldest former Ottoman Empire mosque in the city, B?y?k camii , built from stone around 1474 under Mehmed II....
 in Sofia
Sofia

Sofia , is the Capital and largest city of the Bulgaria, with 2,5 million people living in the Capital Municipality. It is located in western Bulgaria, at the foot of the mountain massif Vitosha, and is the administrative, cultural, economic, and educational centre of the country....
 under inventory number 2044. The sword is in length and up to in width.

The inscription, written in the Latin alphabet
Latin alphabet

The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world today. It evolved from the western variety of the Greek alphabet called the Cumae alphabet, and was initially developed by the Ancient Romes to write the Latin....
, was long considered incomprehensible. It reads as follows:

In 2005, however, decipherment was claimed by a Bulgarian research group, reading an early West Germanic language (Austro-Bavarian
Austro-Bavarian

Austro-Bavarian or Bavarian is a major group of Upper German variety . Like standard German, Austro-Bavarian is a High German languages, but they are not the same language....
 or Lombardic
Lombardic language

Lombardic or Langobardic is the extinct language of the Lombards , the Germanic languages speaking settlers in Italy in the 6th century. The language declined from the 7th century, but may have been in scattered use until as late as ca....
 of ca. the 6th to 8th century), with a meaning of "I do not await eternity, I am eternity" (hvil, cognate to English while and German Weile). If the parsing is plausible or at least the identification of the written language is correct, the text is of great importance to the history of Germanic languages
Germanic languages

The Germanic languages are a group of related languages that constitute a branch of the Indo-European languages language family. The common ancestor of all the languages in this branch is Proto-Germanic, spoken in approximately the mid-1st millennium BC in Pre-Roman Iron Age....
.

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