This 8-Year-Old Girl Pulled a Pre-Viking-Era Sword From a Lake in Sweden

While swimming on her summer vacation, an eight-year-old girl wrested what she thought was a stick from a lake in Sweden. Instead, it turned out she had discovered a pre-Viking-era sword that archaeologists believe is over 1,000 years old.

"It's not every day that one steps on a sword in the lake!" Mikael Nordström from the Jönköpings Läns Museum told Swedish outlet The Local.