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[-] Cowbob12@lemmy.world 79 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Damn, looking at the comments here I realize sometimes I DO have more knowledge on some topics than other people. If you guys don't know that's a bronze sword, bronze is a metal that's well known due to its corruption-resistant properties. When bronze develops that green patina you see on the sword it also creates a sort of protective layer that shields the rest of the metal from oxygen and prevents it from rusting away.

Quick note meant to say corrosion not corruption lmao.

[-] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 38 points 1 year ago

bronze is a metal that's well known due to its corruption-resistant properties.

I suppose it won't take a bribe?

[-] illi@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago

We should start encasing politicians in bronze, might help things

[-] Aqarius@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

It would help. Not for that reason, but it would help.

[-] JackFrostNCola@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Perhaps the casing could be in the shape of a bull maybe... A brazen bull we could call it

[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 year ago

This is also why the statue of liberty is green. Also the colossus of Rhodes would've been the same color by the time of its fall, and especially by the time some MOTHERFUCKER SCRAPPED IT!

[-] undefinedValue@programming.dev 10 points 1 year ago

I think she’s actually made of copper, but ya simillar

[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

I was refering to the patina effect not the metal. But yeah.

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[-] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

that's really cool. yeah, anything involving either chemistry, manufacturing, or blacksmithing I would safely assume I'm not the expert in the room. I bet lots of people are same

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[-] Nobody@lemmy.world 59 points 1 year ago

Beautiful sword, but looking at it gives me the strangest urge to carve runes into my skin.

[-] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 1 year ago

I feel like there is a room full of monks chanting or something in my kitchen but when I go and look, theres nobody there.

[-] SOB_Van_Owen@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

"What's all this sectarian racket then? We don't get Buddhists playing bagpipes in our bathroom or Hindus harmonizing in the hall! The Shintoists don't come here shattering sheet glass in the sh__house and shouting slogans-"

[-] ladicius@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago
[-] androogee@midwest.social 15 points 1 year ago

*Scarification

Tattoos usually don't involve much carving

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Oh... Should we not be doing this?

I feel foolish.

[-] Intrama@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago

That's nice. A nice sword. I want that nice sword. 😋

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 points 1 year ago

It's okay if you colonialism Germany and steal their stuff for museums, just so you know

[-] expatriado@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

looks almost too nice for that age

[-] Shard@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago

Bronze lasts a long time because it barely corrodes in the right conditions compared to iron/steel which rusts the moment you look at it wrong.

Here's one that was made sometime around 700 BC and is in absolutely pristine conditions because the scabbard was so well made it was a practically air tight seal around the sword.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sword_of_Goujian

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 8 points 1 year ago

And then someone dropped it and cracked the blade!

[-] shneancy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

tbh, a 7mm crack is the best case scenario

[-] BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

I have this feeling that my luck is none too good This sword here at my side don't act the way it should Keeps calling me its master, but I feel like its slave Hauling me faster and faster to an early, early grave And it howls, it howls like hell

[-] FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

If I recall correctly, bronze swords tend to be shorter than iron/steel swords. I wonder how big this one is. Need a banana for scale.

Also, it looks cool as fuck.

[-] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

If I had to guess I'd say it's about a human arm's length.

[-] Tryptaminev@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

1,45 m human or 2,15m human?

[-] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

Good point. And it's Bavaria, so his arms may also have reached the floor when standing up.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

You need one of those swords in case you ever go into the underground empire. They glow very brightly when you're in danger from anything but a grue.

[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

Heres a concept, imagine some corrupting evil sword gets picked up by someone who incorruptible by the sword. The trick is they are immune to the swords corruption cause they are working off of a fundamentally different internal morality.

[-] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 22 points 1 year ago

"Hahaha!", said the sword. "I will twist your mind until you're wearing mixed fabrics, having pre-marital sex, and using the Lord's name in vain!", it cackled.

"I'll even make you skip church on the sabbath!".

[-] Im_old@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

what about gay sex and masturbation? Don't want to do half-job here being evil

[-] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

"Hmm...", said the sword, quizzically. "The scriptures on those are a little vague in the translation the Blacksmith had".

The sword paused for a moment to think, its metal shifting subtly in a manner which could vaguely be described as coy.

"Maybe...", stuttered the sword, "you could show me what that means".

[-] Allero@lemmy.today 4 points 1 year ago
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[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

Skyrim glass sword.

[-] comrade19@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

With all the fake stuff on the internet i just presume that this picture is not of the sword

[-] dditty@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago
[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago

I'm seriously amazed at how polished it looks after just a small rinse of water over it, despite being buried for over 3000 years. The arrowheads also look perfectly intact

[-] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Ah, so the real answer is that the sword was bronzed

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 8 points 1 year ago

Are objects of solid bronze "bronzed?"

[-] notsofunnycomment@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Given the soft nature of bronze, historians have previously wondered whether such blades served a ceremonial purpose, rather than a practical purpose on the battlefield. A few years ago, scientists even staged sword fights in order to learn more about how the Bronze Age weapons could have been used effectively in battle, despite being much easier to damage and harder to repair than their iron successors."

Scientists a sword fight?! Yes:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/en-garde-scientists-stage-sword-fights-study-bronze-age-warfare-180974705/

scientists fighting swords

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Head to your nearest graveyard and you're bound to dig up a sword in one of them eventually.

[-] 96VXb9ktTjFnRi@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago
[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I'm sorry, I thought this was America?

[-] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Handle looks like a snakes head, I wonder if that's deliberate?

[-] _Cid_@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Wasn't Nördlingen the Attack on Titan town?

[-] MeatPilot@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Whispered secret #1: "Your mom and dad regret having you."

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