Swords

It's fascinating to me what I find when swords come up in various contexts. I tend to consider myself as much more knowledgeable about swords than most people... But I constantly find out new little things I didn't know before. Like, apparently, the type of blade Beowulf used to slay the Grendel was a "Seax" or "Sex" - an old type of medieval knife/sword I hadn't heard of before. Fascinating stuff.

The thing that really struck me, though, was the movie "Reclaiming the Blade", which is a documentary about swords. I don't remember hearing about it before... Which astounds me because it's exactly the type of thing I'd have expected to have found somewhere back in my various researches into the topic. Not sure how that happened.

Not that it matters a huge amount, I suppose. But it is going onto my wish-list...