During the regional festival "Dazhynki-2024" in Polotsk, Alexander Lukashenko was presented with a replica of a battle sword from the time of Prince Vseslav the Sorcerer.
The gift was presented on a wolf skin, which is also a symbolic gesture.
The Belta agency reports on this event.
The sword itself symbolizes power, strength and courage, and the era in which such weapons were used in Belarus is primarily associated with Prince Vseslav Bryachislavich (reign 1044-1101).
He was called the Sorcerer because of his wisdom and ability to emerge victorious from the most difficult situations.
It was under this prince that the Polotsk principality reached its greatest power.
His contemporaries said that Vseslav could turn into a wolf (the Slavs considered this animal the patron saint of warriors), which gave him a number of advantages in battle.
Wolf skin was previously used as an element of warrior clothing.
It is reported that the same technologies were used in the creation of the sword as in the Middle Ages.
It is made of iron, bog oak, bronze and leather. The length in the sheath is 101 centimeters, the weight is one and a half kilograms.
