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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2008 0:38:38 GMT
smacks master in the foreheadFirst of all, I am not simpleton kindly refrain from treating me as such. Second of all there are swords that are historically recorded as being able to cut through falling silk, such as Saladin's sword and several samurai sword, the other one was to put the blade in the path of a water lily floating downstream and expected it to split the lily with just the motion of the water. Blood, from the best of my knowledge that story is actually part of a fictional novel and really I don't think they should be interpreted as fact. This paper ( linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1044580301001024) indicates that the tale of Saladin cutting silk was started in the fictional novel 'The Talisman' by Sir Walter Scott ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Talisman_(1825_novel)) which can be read here: www.gutenberg.org/etext/1377 or here: www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/w-scott/talisman.pdfThere are also many accounts/depictions in period literature/art of things like dragons and swords cutting easily through plate armour... these are things we know aren't true. Mysticism and suspension of believe in the physical world were widely featured in the 'history' of the time, or so it seems.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2008 6:23:50 GMT
Vy: Actually I wasn't referring to the talisman, I am trying to remember where I read it, I think it was an article of wootz steel that talks about the ability for the steel to get sharp enough to cut through a falling piece of silk. I was not disagreeing with master sharing his opinion, I was disagreeing with the way he has been choosing to voice things lately that seem as if they are trying to be deliberately condescending and contrary. I have read many stories about the samurai sword cutting through water lilies with nothing but the momentum of the gentle stream to carry them through the cut. I have seen swords that are sharp enough that I think they could live upto some of the myths, not cutting plate armour or anything. One of my favourite myths is from the Volsung Sagas where Seigfried or Sigurd depending on culture cuts through an anvil with a sword given by Odin.
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Post by YlliwCir on Sept 1, 2008 6:39:01 GMT
One of my favourite myths is from the Volsung Sagas where Seigfried or Sigurd depending on culture cuts through an anvil with a sword given by Odin. That one's true.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2008 6:45:22 GMT
well he was a viking so I wouldn't be surprised if he could cut an anvil on half with a teaspoon!
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Post by YlliwCir on Sept 1, 2008 7:01:25 GMT
I was thinking Odin being a god and all......
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2008 7:10:54 GMT
Well true but he wasn't the one who wielded it, Sigurd the dragon slayer was the wielder of the mighty sword that cleft the anvil in twain and put paid to the might of the dragon Fafnir.
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Post by 293master293 on Sept 1, 2008 7:18:18 GMT
smacks master in the foreheadFirst of all, I am not simpleton kindly refrain from treating me as such. Second of all there are swords that are historically recorded as being able to cut through falling silk, such as Saladin's sword and several samurai sword, the other one was to put the blade in the path of a water lily floating downstream and expected it to split the lily with just the motion of the water. When I said "smacks forehead", I did not mean smack YOUR forehead, I meant mine.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2008 7:29:33 GMT
It was the way you said it mate, the smack was more me making a point I was not trying to be harsh in comment merely make you realise that you come across as being very combative and inflammable when you make comments sometimes.
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Post by YlliwCir on Sept 1, 2008 7:35:47 GMT
Pesky buggers, them dragons.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2008 8:23:56 GMT
Yeah but leaves are even more annoying, they get everywhere and just when you think you are invincible on every area of your body some bugger stabs in the one spot where you are vunerable namely the bit where the leaves were on your skin.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2008 9:13:42 GMT
I must have gotten my wires crossed, cheers for the explanation!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2009 13:59:37 GMT
i got my excaliber a month or so ago and i felt same thing on the "whippy part" and my hilt has some flex to it? i know odd. i contacted arms of valor were i got it and they said it should ot be an issue , but we shall see when i start takeing on the army of water bottles ;D
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