Medieval Sword Fishing from Vesla in Warsaw – History

A fisherman on the bank of the Vistula River in Warsaw grabbed a medieval sword. Angler Andrzej Korpikiewicz actually didn’t fish at the time. It was too hot, so he just took a walk by the river and checked out what might be visible on its low water level. He found a rusty metal object placed on the concrete flowing head, but he thought it was a piece of steel bar or hinge. He fished it out, cleared some water ches, river snails and freshwater shrimps, and clinged to it, seeing a cross with a triangular arm engraved.

Realizing that this might be a historical artifact, he hid it on the grass by the river and called a friend of a metal detective. The friend wisely told him that he should have the sword wet to protect it, so he soaked some t-shirts in Vesta and wrapped the sword in it. It stayed overnight in his car and the next morning, Andrzej Korpikiewicz brought it to the Warsaw Warsaw Corvertator.

It is tentatively identified as a medieval sword, with almost intact length, minus the tip. It has a spherical or spherical saddle with a cross in the middle of the handle. Several medieval knights ordered to use the Cross magazine as their logo, including the Templars and the Knights Hospital, but it could also be a mark of the workshop or manufacturer, or just a blessing on the sword.

The sword has now been transferred to the State Archaeological Museum’s Metal Conservation Symposium, where it will be thoroughly cleaned, stabilized and analyzed to determine its age, origin and meaning of the symbol of the cross.