The Ingelrii group consists of about 20 known
By 1951, Ewart Oakeshott had originally identified thirteen such swords of this inscription, and had suggested that another, at Wisbech Museum, found in the river bed of the River Nene in 1895, is also an Ingelrii; supported by Davidson as a possible fourteenth.
Other variations of the inscription have also been found: INGRLRIIMEFECIT on a sword found by Sigridsholm,[ Historiskt-geografiskt och statistiskt Lexikon öfver Sverige, Volume 6, p. 70. Probably Ling, north of Stockholm. At Google Books. Retrieved 27 September 2013.] Sweden, and INGELRIH FECIT on a sword found in Flemma, Norway.
Known Ingelrii swords
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British Museum – Ingelrii, found in the River Thames, along the King's Reach,
[Peirce, Ian, G. (2002) Swords of the Viking Age, p. 80. Boydell Press.] at Temple[
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Wisbech Museum – found at Raven's Willow, Peterborough
[Davidson, Hilda Ellis (1998) The Sword in Anglo-Saxon England: Its Archaeology and Literature, p. xviii–xx. Boydell & Brewer Ltd. . Retrieved 27 September 2013.]
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Lower Saxony State Museum, Hanover
[Oakeshott, Ewart (2012) The Sword in the Age of Chivalry, p. 82. Boydell Press.]
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Bavarian National Museum, Munich – found in the Danube near Hilgartsberg
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Swiss National Museum, Zurich — an 11th-century sword found in Marin-Epagnier
[ Jahresbericht Schweizerisches Landesmuseum Zürich 19 (1910).]
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Sword with +INGELRI+ inscription, and +PREBM+ on the reverse side, pommel of "tea-cosy", length 89.5 cm (blade 75 cm)
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A singular sword with a variant form of the inscription, read as +SINIGELRINIS+, dated mid-10th to mid-11th century, formerly of the Frank Unrath collection (auctioned in 2013)
See also
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Alfred Geibig, Beiträge zur Morphologischen Entwicklung des Schwertes im Mittelalter, 1991, p. 124
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Lech Marek, Early Medieval Swords from Central and Eastern Europe, 2005, pp. 49–54, plates 6c and 25c
