In Sweden, English language news website The Local strikes a suitably Nordic note, reporting that workmen digging a rail tunnel under Stockholm have found Mjoelnir, the hammer used in Norsemythology by the thunder god Thor.
Something was needed to break the humdrum of months of days with only two to three hours of sunlight and nothing to do but read really long sagas on Norsemythology while munching on salted seal flippers.