Concentration/number of weapon types in the pre-and immidiate migration period.

[Incongruous]

Well, I am pretty certain that there was a greater concentration of swords in the area. Massive amounts have been dredged up from Denmark which are not of Norse origin (apparently, but again not having primary souces on finds makes it tricky to verify.) So having even more readings on such things is needed.

I shall continue to search through my uni data base.
Thanks for the great discussion, Watchman and Fisherking.

[Fisherking]

I have tried tapping some German sources…but with limited luck, as my German is not the best.

But even there I run into the same melding of Celtic/German to the point that you can hardly tell who is who. It is such a cloudy time and moving people leave little record of a material culture. I think that most of what we have is more educated guess work than conclusive evidence of who was where, let alone what they had.

The easiest place to start might be with Gothland…we know where they came from and should have some indication what their material culture was around the time they started to move, especially since not everyone left…