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September 29, 2005
Aventures in Viking Loot
According to the Guardian, a Norweign family didn't think much about the stuff that turned up in the toybox belonging to their five-year twin sons. Not at first, anyway.
It was only when an ancient-looking brooch appeared in the toybox mix that the Kruzes decided to do some research. It turned out that twins Arthur and Teodor, aged five, and their cousin Jesper, also five, had not been playing with tat but with 1,200-year-old Viking treasure unearthed in the back garden. "After we checked on the internet, we realised that it was not something from H&M," said Marita Kruze, mother of the twins.
Tat is apparently British slang for "an object which is tacky, cheap, vulgar, tasteless, sleazy, inelegant, of poor quality or shoddy." And the importance of tat in my life makes it shocking that I only just discovered the word.
Posted by Deborah Branscum at September 29, 2005 03:05 PM