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you may have seen the archaeologist with the tiny sword from that recent York dig last week. here is a better image of it. Votive offering?
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Definitive proof of the existence of leprechauns.
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Back when house elves were armed...
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Apparently it was dug up by a smurf?
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It could be related to the Roxolani Pygmies who took a wrong turn on the Ister, crossed Britain, and reached Maine where we have the famous Boothbay Harbor Roman Sword Museum.
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Is a matter of perspective. I think that the sword is a normal gladius what is wrong in the pictures are the hands. They belong to an Giant. Probably at least 3 m (9ft) tall.
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That explains why the hands are blue. The sword is being held by a Nordic frost giant.