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If wars were still fought with swords you would be :)

I think it was Einstein who said "I know not what weapons world war three will be fought with, but world war four will be fought with sticks...

It makes sense especially if the blacksmith is good. More / better weapons to give an advantage on the battlefield would be something any self respecting war lord would jump all over :)

England...

It certainly is :) the program on the Ulfbert said the steel used in them blades would not be seen in Europe again for another 1000 years...........it boggles the mind really, well it does mine !
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I might recall wrongly here but I'm pretty sure the program where that chap recreated an ulfbert blade came to the conclusion the steel they used was likely to have been imported from the middle east.

lol so true. It always puts a smile on my face when people talk about tamahagane like it's some kind of magical super steel. In reality its production was born out of a necessity to refine a starting...

I wonder if the "flaws" in the steels produced at the time actually helped when it comes to a shaving edge !

As has been discussed before the sharpest edge does not necessarily mean the best...