Blacksmiths recreate Viking Age anchor using ancient techniques in Denmark

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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.  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2026/08/25/blacksmiths-recreate-viking-age-anchor-using-ancient-techniques-in-denmark  Spark your senses, wake your wonder. Euronews Culture seeks to show creativity in action and inspire our audience to explore the world through the five senses. Start your journey through the best of Europe's arts, gastronomy, traditions and high-end craftsmanship.

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00:16We're forging a small Viking anchor and we're using techniques identical to what

00:23would have been used at the time. Those techniques have been determined from

00:27x-ray geography and various analyses and the material we're using is what's known

00:34as bloomery iron so that's the material that they would have been using as well.

01:00It's not the steel that has been made in a steel mill somewhere, it is iron that has

01:06been smelted so even the fuel we're using everything is a lot more historical even

01:11the 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

01:36here and maybe try to attack the place or trying to start the raid to England or to Ireland

01:45or whatever they want to raid.

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