MODERN MATCHES MEDIEVAL
Dec 18, 2019
3 minutes
YOU PROBABLY KNEW that medieval bladesmiths took a long time, maybe months, to make a sword. That always seemed both wasteful and poor business to me. Metal smelting is an energy-intensive industry and producing substantial amounts of iron or steel would always be relatively cheaper than making just enough for one sword. And what did the bladesmith and his family (it was always ‘he’, except in modern fairytales) live on while he toiled on that one blade?
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