Girl, 8, pulls a 1,500-year-old sword from a lake in Sweden

[Imperial Dave]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-45753455

if that was anywhere in the UK you would have Arthur enthusiasts beating a path to that lake

[Andreas Johansson]

Cool 

[Imperial Dave]

get your wellies on Andreas

[Duncan Head]

Reminded me of this one.

[Imperial Dave]

indeed yes....wonder if that one turned out to be the real deal....

[Duncan Head]

A bit more detail at
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/05/sweden-true-queen-pulls-ancient-sword-from-lake

[Imperial Dave]

thanks Duncan

I just love the fact that she is called Saga!

[Erpingham]

thanks Duncan

I just love the fact that she is called Saga!

Which, if I remember The Bridge, is pronounced Sah-ya and presumably a popular girls name.  Andreas might tell us whether there is any connection to saga meaning a story.

[Imperial Dave]

either way, still makes me chuckle 

[Andreas Johansson]

It's an old name that's become fairly popular in the last couple decades: it would be distinctly unusual for someone in their 30s but not at all remarkable for an 8yo. It's pronounced Sah-ga with a hard 'g' in Swedish - at a guess, "Sah-ya" might be Danish.

I had assumed it was identical with with saga "story, fairytale" (pronounced identically), but WP informs me that that is folk etymology and it actually means "Seeress". Presumably that means it shares a root with English "see" (whereas saga the common noun shares one with "say").

[Erpingham]

It's pronounced Sah-ga with a hard 'g' in Swedish - at a guess, "Sah-ya" might be Danish.

Just goes to show how little I was following it when I couldn't tell which of the two languages they were speaking    I shall go back to trying to learn to pronounce Malmö, which seems to appear as a site of criminal activity in all Scandi crime thrillers.