A very similar sword, likely from the same workshop, was discovered in Norway in 1888 while railway work was being conducted on farmland at Korsoygaden in Stange municipality, Hedmarken district.

In 1964, Oakeshott stated that while both swords were "long believed" to date to the late 11th or early 12th century, suggested by the "Viking sword"-type pommel and the runic inscription on the Korsoygaden sword, they could not possibly predate the mid 13th century because of the style of the Cawood sword's inscriptions, and because the pommel type was not in fact in "Viking Age" style, but in a "late" British derivation of pommel shapes of the Viking Age.

[2] However, in 1991, Oakeshott revisited this opinion based on the style of the runic inscription on the Korsoygaden sword.

[4] The Cawood sword was kept at the Tower of London until the 1950s and then sold into private hands.

[5] Since 2017 it has featured as one of the key objects in the exhibition 'Medieval York: Capital of the North'.