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- 48:37 Proof that the Chinese were hard at work even during viking times.
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- Ulfberht has a Nordic ring to it, so why would anyone think it was made in Middle East or Central Asia?
- Read the sagas written by "Snorre", they are so informative about the viking age. The stories a thousand years ago still live today. Like that man who were said to be extremely skilled in both fighting in general and specially in bows were declared an outlaw, and it took 20 men to kill him. 2 died and 8 injured. In the text it is said he was of the strongest, and could jump just as far back and forward with the heavy armor on.Those stories are so interesting to read, its almost like a real life tolkien story (without mythical creatires and orcs ofcourse).
- I'm all about efficiency of a weapon and its usage.When that man explains his indifference to the katana sword and then demonstrates a bastard sword swing at the bamboo prop target, he was so wrong on so many levels. Broad swords are great and all, but take too much energy and too wide of swings to produce its maximum effect, while a katana can be wielded even by a old woman with ease. If he did that swing he demonstrated against another man with a katana, he would've been killed easily with that slow movement, not joking. It's not about the weapon, it's the man or woman who uses it! Bastard swords were used by the best swords[wo]man, not by a bunch of unskilled and weak warriors or soldiers; and such a sword would have been a heavy thing to carry, which a lot of people tend to forget or are unaware about. Samurai's and ninjas never used shields, thus had to be more skilled and faster in their use of weaponry; instead of continuously blocking and deflecting attacks all the time; Samurai's and ninjas aimed for single swing kills and saved more energy this way, but not continual barrage of attacks to wear and tear one's enemy and waste a whole lot of energy to defeat only one man. Funny, just my opinion and foresight, carbonized metal will only continue towards being melted, until metallurgists create diamond and crystal blades.Thanks for upload.
- What is the riddle of steel? I wonder how much it cost at the time? I'd like to have a sword like this made with todays cutting edge steel technology.
- ULFBERHT post 2/2
- so at 25:25 I have to call bullshit.. the Vikings sailed far away and raided.. that would be like me and 5 of my friends load up in vans with ak47's in LA and driving to Vegas to rob drug dealers and other gangsters.. or a bank if there was no cops.. so why all of a sudden would they be trading... if they found more middle east gold coins then any other treasure in Scandinavia then common sense would tell you that's not from trade, maybe paid hit men but most likely robbery.. Viking means raider and you don't get the nick name raider from trade... I could get a good job not minim wage and still not make as much money as robing some 1 at gun point 300+ miles away from my hood for 4 kilos of pure coke and $200k... Im from the bay area so doing dirt in san Diego is the best way to get rich.. that's the raider Viking mind set.. they got so many middle east coins cause they where easy to get away and stay lost after taking.. jacking is easy with a lil planning.. its never being seen or heard from with out a trace is where the skills chills.. idk short story long I don't believe supposed experts.. working is surviving with some toys... to be a baller you gotta steal.. legal or illegal rather you are the bank Obama or a man with a gun no 1 got rich working.. apart from bill gates inventor types, only people in history that got rich took it!!!! jack move.. power and ambition..
- I would really like to ask the blacksmith if he has tried making the nitrogen steel that appears in some viking myths (was made by getting poultry to eat iron filings, and then smelting the poop!)
- I am a craftsmann who makes knife.i have seen manny type off severel steel.butt it is 1time i see a ulfberth sword.there was allso another type off Steel call sleipner Steel at that time.foundet in n.German for not manny eyers ago.
- can i touch it?
- I knew the swords were good but slicing through someone's skull? That's some Walking Dead style swordplay! I would have laughed that off hadn't I just seen it.
- That blacksmith has a wonderful Brian Blessed BEARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Viking blood flows in my veins! proud!
- so why did they try using a roman calvary sword used for slashing instead of a typical gladius? wasn't the standard infantry sword more pointed?
- 20:00No no you need 8 blocks of cobblestone and a charcoal block to melt the Iron successfully and more efficient than just charcoal .
- Well done to the blacksmith that took him a few days the idiot who talks about mass production it would not be the same
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- They don't know origins of the name Ulfberht. But maybe the answer is much more simple than they would expect. Maybe Ulfberht means sth like 'bright wolf' or anything else 'bright' (bright, brilliant sword, guided by light, created by light, etc.)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bert_%28name%29From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:Bert is a hypocoristic form of a number of Germanic male given names, such as Robert and Albert.There is a large number of Germanic names ending in -bert, second in number only to those ending in -wolf (-olf, -ulf). Most of these names are early medieval or medieval and only a comparatively small fraction remains in modern use.The element berht has the meaning of "bright", Old English beorht/berht, Old High German beraht/bereht, ultimately from a Common Germanic *berhtaz, from a PIE root *bhereg "white, bright".
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- Talking about the katana..."Sharpness alone is not enough" What!? These people are so stupid, Wow....the sharpness of the Katana is the the only thing about it that isn't unique or why it's such an effective weapon. "It's been exaggerated" and they say "A really good sword is not just about cutting with a really sharp edge" .....Then they say that "STRENGTH, FLEXIBILITY, WEIGHT, AND SHAPE" are what make a good sword....When in reality these are Exactly what make the Katana great....then they talk about "PURE METALS" Well, Guess what people. Katanas were made with some of the purest Iron in the world, then they'd add Carbon with coal, in fact, if the iron wasn't extremely pure, they wouldn't use it to make the Katana, they'd start over. And the pure iron in a Katana gives it Extraordinary durability and flexibility, you can bend one more than 45 degrees and it will be perfectly fine. The iron also gives the blade a shock absorption quality so when clashing swords it would not break, even after hundreds of hits. The SHAPE of a katana allows for the fastest drawing of any sword ever made in history because of it's curve. Allowing one to strike and draw simultaneously. This guy literally trash talked the Katana just to get people to wonder why he thinks this Viking sword is better. These people are complete idiots. And after what they said about the Katana, I literally can't trust anything they say about swords. Absolute nonsense with what they said about the Katana.
- I'm only 20 and unlike most people my age these days I think it's sad that blacksmithing is a dying art, thankfully as long as people like the ones in this video are still around this amazing art will never truely die out. :)
- + t , t is a otther element
- I don''t really think the +VLFBERHT+ was an indication of a fake sword. The fact that all the swords marked +VLFBERHT+ have lower quality steel seems more like the smith or smithy labeled his/their work as such. That way the smith could make sure he was selling the right products and the proper quality. Sorta like the iPhone 4 and the iPhone 4s or the Mustang GT or the Mustang Cobra. Or given the cast system of inheritance: father and son. There are truly countless examples of this in history and in modern times.A swordsmith would have physically made thousands of swords in his lifetime not just suddenly gain the skill to make only a handful of +VLFBERH+T. What happens to the other 3000 swords? What were they doing while waiting for more crucible steel to arrive from the Middle East? I'm guessing building their buisness and building on the success of the +VLFBERH+T. If I was running the shop I would make sure sign my work. As an artist I sign my quality work with my name and my lesser stuff with an abbreviation. I'm not the first.To say the sword was a counterfeit because the smith couldn't read or see the difference between +T and T+ is a bit of a stretch. I don't really buy that a close replica could be created and such obvious mistake was made. When swords marked as +VLFBERH+T start showing up with non-crucible steel then and only then should a sword be deemed as a counterfeit.
- Nobody has made a recreation since... Pfffhahaha as if there is anything in steel done back then that cant be mass produced 10 times better today.
- great craftsmen!
- "Far better than swords made before or since in Europe" - absolute nonsense, modern metallurgy, heat treating and tempering (think deep cryo), and more precise grinding and sharpening tools make modern swords far better than anything produced pre industrial revolution.
- Really cool... I just think they've done poor justice to the roman gladius!
- God that docu is just completly moronic they used an absoluty crappy sword for comparsion and the mail was even worse.....
- Unlikely to find a documentary on youtube that is actually unbiased.