Cultural Significance of the Unique Gothic Relic Some historians believe that the crescent shape on one side of the spear head is a magical symbol that the Goths picked up during one of their exploratory wanderings, probably when they first encountered people from the Black Sea. You can see the use of such symbols in the Kragehul spearhead (similar, though not identical to the Kovel spearhead) which was uncovered at the Kragehul bog near Flemløse in Denmark . Germanic warriors strongly believed that their spears had magical qualities - and according to their Gothic traditions, impaling your enemy with great force during a battle was a way of sacrificing them to Odin, their God of battle. As the Voluspá verifies in