New York Post
By Chris Nesi
Published May 18, 2026, 6:29 p.m. ET
They always said he was a sharp student.
A schoolboy in Norway made the discovery of a lifetime when he spotted a rusty object protruding from the ground on a field trip that proved to be a 1,300-year-old sword predating the Viking era.
First-grader Henrik Refsnes Mørtvedt, 6, was on a class trip to Norway’s Innlandet county, a vast expanse of untamed wilderness and jaw-dropping mountain ranges, when he made the unusual find as the group made their way across a field.
Super Sleuth
