Kirsten Svendsdatter Finds the Gold Horn at Gallehus on 20 July 1639, 1859. (In 1639, a young peasant woman discovered a golden horn sticking out of the ground near her home in Denmark. The Golden Horn of Gallehus, made in the 5th century, provides one of the earliest examples of a full sentence written in Elder Futhark.)

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