Historical Mjolnir

I figured aluminum. Either way, there's nothing historical about it and it seems unlikely that you could really use it at all. :evil:

It looks cool and all, but the text does read suspiciously and you can tell it is not mounted securely.

One would do better just to obtain a freaking modern Swedish-pattern blacksmiths hammer - which arguably would be more "historically" correct than the fantasy thingie from MRL:



You could actually fight some knife-armed hoodie-thug with that hammer and NOT worry about the thing falling apart - while hopefully you take apart the thug.

Indeed, that 3-pound Snap-On would be about the best modern equivalent to a Mjolnir, better than what I suggested.

See its picture below:



And of course you could still punish some thug with it.

Those are all good suggestions. Yeah, the Vikings did not use hammers much supposedly. I have my own little self-entertaining daydream about the subject. We see some examples of the messy impromptu fights in the sagas; shields being thrown across a stretch of ice that a fight is taking place on to hopefully trip up an opponent, people holed up in their homes shooting foes trying to gain the doorway with a bow, men keeping a sword in a bush while they tend the garden and snatching it up to kill someone attempting an ambush, etc. I can easily see someone deciding to take on the local blacksmith in his forge and underestimating a man who uses a hammer all day long. A good weapon for a battlefield? Maybe not without some modifications. But an excellent tool to bring to bear against a foe if you have nothing better. I'd hate to try and deal with a seasoned and angry roofer with their roofing hatchet/hammer, even in my maille harness.

Also I have wondered... Viking sword hilts can always be interpreted as a hammer. We know of their love of prose and clever word-play. The blade flashes like.... lightning. So I have wondered about all of that. A good indirect way to refer to a viking sword is a hammer that shoots lightning and makes thunderclaps as it attacks a shield.

It's a nice daydream. Too bad we don't have more of their literature. I'd like to see some more of their symbology and archetypes in their folk stories.