All these things are sufficiently mysterious that the only reasonable explanation at the time was magic or divine intervention. A big hot metallic lump would be found at the bottom of a crater in the epicenter of a big explosion with smoke effects as a bonus. As a result, even though they are less common, most of the global collection (about 90%) is metallic in nature.īack in the day when mankind had zero understanding about astrophysics, there was no better explanation than that the deity of choice had sent a magic lump of metal from heaven for some unfathomable reason. The metallic ones are more durable and recognizable than the stone ones. About 6% of all meteorites to hit earth are metallic, not stony. Long before mankind had a working knowledge of smelting iron ore, people had access to iron in the form of meteorites. Any and all errors that might still be contained in this article are purely my own. This article will not deal with the poetic embellishments that slipped into these stories, but with the metal itself and of course the magic as it was perceived to exist at the time.Like my previous article, this one was reviewed by master smith Mike Blue. Jake Keen, an archeo-metallurgist from Devonshire UK, suggests that ‘drawing the sword from the stone’ may be a reference to the smelting talents of the king rather than evidence of God*given physical prowess or special selection. For example, the stories say that Excalibur was magically drawn from a stone. As with most legends, there is a core of facts at the origin.Īside from the qualities of the swords themselves, their provenance might have been embellished in translation and retelling. Or swords made from ore that was a stolen from a holy place, or which was infused by magic in some arcane ritual or other. We’ve all heard variations of legends where the hero gets a magic sword from a God or angel. Craig Johnson of the Oakshotte Institute in the US has lectured on the Frankish steels from Europe being highly sought after for their ability to survive a Russian winter.
Those magic blades would not be tarnished by the sands of time. Or at least magic as it was perceived by people several hundred or thousand years ago. I’m talking about the stuff used for making magic swords. I did however fail to explain about magic steel.
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Wunderstahl, supersteel, unobtainium, … they’re all indicative of the fact that bladesmiths understand how to sell their stuff. I also explained where some of the mythology comes from, and that it mostly boils down to marketing ploys. I talked about different types of steel and how it was made. In my previous article, I explained some of the basics of steel.
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