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Vikings unwittingly made their swords stronger
- eridius 8y agoIt sounds like they quite wittingly made their swords stronger, they just didn’t understand the physical mechanism by which this worked.
- DrScump 8y agoThis article completely ignores the discovery of crucible steel use in Viking swords like the Ulfberht, whose isotopic analysis supposedly points to Persian origin, obtained through trade. There was a great PBS "Nova" episode on this called "Secrets of the Viking Sword"; transcript available at: http://www.stickgrappler.net/2013/07/nova-secrets-of-viking-sword-2012-full.html?m=1 http://www.stickgrappler.net/2013/07/nova-secrets-of-viking-...