Could Be True?

As we told you there were three nonmartial pieces in the Staffordshire Hoard, two gold crosses and a slender strip made of gold engraved with a biblical quotation. But what is this magic these historians talked about? In Britain, Christianity arrived with Romans, lost when the Romans faded away. But with the arrival missionaries, it was reintroduced to Anglo-Saxon England. These missionaries came all the way from Ireland and the Continent. What about the Nordic sagas then which describe Smith’s magic arts, including Odin’s spear and gold ring to Thor’s hammer? This treasure was a mystery to everybody. But things started getting sorted out. See what Fred Johnson has to say about the treasure.