The early 1940s were a lot darker than the so-called “Dark Ages.”

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The more time spent looking at these shield‐bosses, necklaces and pins (and not least a debonair and alarming scramasax—a wonderful word for a long knife), the more clear it becomes that this was a highly sophisticated, confident civilization.

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