Antique Viking axes and cutleries in display (French translation needed)

[JayGoliath]

It will take translations of your long-forgotten French and some good minutes for these:

http://laguiole.clicforum.fr/t198-avant-le-couteau-les-haches.htm

I love his work: Havard Bergland

 

[Square_peg]

Try this Google translation.

http://translate.googleusercontent....es.htm&usg=ALkJrhg5OhqLiKIfqxV6GR8zci6dRhiOUQ

 

[Simple Jumper]

Slow day at work today, here's the first paragraph:

What’s an axe?
I strongly believe that the principle of the axe came well before the knife in the hands of our ancestors! If we look at the human beings before us and also with us (Neanderthal and Flores) left us : their tools of rocks and silex, the principle of the axe finds itself here : cutting and splitting, as if we used an axe nowadays without a haft!
To have axes that resemble what we now know, with a wooden haft, we’d have to wait the Neothilic and metal age!
Metal in Europe: - 2000 BC for copper, -1800 for bronze and the arrival of the Celts for steel, -800 BC.
It is an ESSENTIAL tool which none of our machines will EVER make it obsolete.


Hope it helps!