@plebmagic: Why EXTRA BRITTLE Viking swords #historyfacts #medieval #ancientwarfare #vikings

hotpotato :

so they picked aura over effectiveness?

Rumpled Shitskin :

Damascus steel actually makes stronger blades.

Nonameafghan :

so like shittier damascus

🟦🟨 Українець ⚠️🐍 :

btw, they also often used bones of their ancestors or enemies in making of swords to infuse these weapons with power of their ancestors/enemies

🔻wackless🔻 :

aura over everything

NaoyaFr⚖️ :

could you get metal shards trapped in your body if it snaps mid cut

𝕱𝖚𝖓𝖐¥.𝕱𝖎𝖊𝖓𝖉 :

survival of the good enough

Polnagoon :

thegreatelectricspiider :

Equivalent of wearing pants so baggy they drag across the floor while it’s raining

Jaco_Rosse :

so damascus?

carters_alt :

they would also mix their enemies bones with the metal from their sword just for aura but it actually made a crude version of steel

Ref :

why no one talking about guts in the end of the video?👀

🔻squidwards._.tikiland ☭ :

Style over substance wins once again

Swampyshaft :

Pretty sure the vikings accidently came up with steel by mixing bones in with iron, making their swords undaubtably stronger then most others

MB :

Didn’t get also add bones which made the swords less brittle?

plebmagic :

Source quotes below: Mike Loades explains how pattern welding was done, how it made swords more brittle, serving no other purpose than aesthetic appeal. A crucial fact that iron could not be molten in the early middle ages, so you were kind of “stuck” with whatever bad qualities the iron had. Note that “piling” was a different method of sandwiching layers of iron with different qualities, that did in fact make the swords stronger – it just didn’t create as interesting-looking blades as pattern welding. “ A great deal is talked about pattern welded blades being of superior quality. In fact the opposite is true and they are prone to being a little brittle. Pattern-welding was used because it had aesthetic appeal and for no other reason.” A manufacturing process that produced decorative motifs, pattern welding was achieved by heating and twisting together bundles of carbon-infused iron rods and hammering them flat into a workable bar. It was a variation on the piled method and one that enabled a visible pattern to be predetermined. These patterns were not only discernible on the surface of the metal but ran right through it. because of the way iron was extracted from the bloomery hearth, the rods tended to have different metallurgical compositions; some having a higher carbon content than others. Additionally, the level of impurities, known as slag and consisting largely of silicates, varied considerably. Differences in each rod’s composition showed up as fine dark lines when the rods were heated and welded together under the hammer. An expert smith could control and create the pattern he wanted just by the way he set the twists in the rods. In many instances, though not all, separate steel cutting edges were then forged onto the core. Norse poetry describes some of the patterns with phrases such as ‘swathes of mown corn’, ‘blood eddy’ and ‘wavy serpent’. Clearly there was much artistry and such blades were prized as high-status objects. Piling was the most common method of producing Roman blades but there was another process, ‘pattern welding’, that had been used as early as the fourth century BC. "

Katori_nos :

in a country with alot metals how ironic

Constantin Scheller :

ah yes and that's why they invented steel and had the best swords at the time ... because they had no idea?...

Goofy goober :

Wouldnt it also shatter into the opponents and lodge metal into them?