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The Midhus Silver Hoard

Found 1980, near Egilsstadir, East Iceland
RECOVERED
Evidence status: Historical tradition. no documented source (historical tradition); legal status unknown (manual verification recommended). This account is presented as historical tradition, not verified fact. Manual verification recommended. Repository evidence: 0 sources · 0 timeline events · 0 media items · legal unknown · view on the Map Evidence on file: historical tradition

The Midhus Silver Hoard: still unexplained.

Viking-age silver

The subject
The manifest
Viking-age silver
The account

A Viking silver hoard turned up in an Icelandic field in 1980, proof that more may still lie buried in the old farms.

How it was found
  • A Viking-age silver hoard found in eastern Iceland in 1980, one of the largest ever unearthed on the island, sparking a long debate over whether it was genuinely ancient.
What the record holds

What remains open

  • No period map of the site has surfaced.
  • No contemporary press coverage has been found.
What we know, and what we don't
Established

No documentary claim is yet established. The account rests on tradition.

Still open
  • No period map of the site has surfaced.
  • No contemporary press coverage has been found.
The evidence room

No documentary or visual exhibits have been located yet. The trail below and the open leads are where this dossier grows next — every exhibit that enters here carries a source.

Where the trail points now
  • Search Library of Congress + DPLA (IIIF) for period cartography of the site.
  • Run Chronicling America for dated newspaper mentions.
  • Query NARA for archival records tied to the site.

Have a source, a map, or a clipping? Add a lead and it enters the record with its citation.

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The first leads, so no one walks in cold.
Sources and the record
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The full hunt kit

Starting brief, what's known and disputed, evidence timeline, source list, map card, coordinate-confidence and legal-access summaries, and a field checklist, free with a Fellowship account.

Latest Word From the Newswire

Context, not proof. The dossier's own sources remain the evidence record.

Checking the wire…

Chart position 65.270°, -14.390° (approx.) View on the Map