had the best swords
The adolescent in me can’t stop giggling
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Vinylraupe@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
Blue paint was only used by Briton Celts.
Central European Celts who invented chainmail and had the best swords: “Am i a joke to you?”
lonefighter@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
PugJesus@piefed.social 12 hours ago
tbf, the swords could be extremely variable. I remember one incident wherein a Celtic tribe’s swords bent after some hard fighting and they had to have their comrades cover them while they tried to straighten them back out to a semi-fight-worthy condition.
Also, while blue paint was Briton, according to Caesar, tattooing and war paint more generally are attested to in literary sources (though not uncontroversially) amongst other Celtic peoples.
Vinylraupe@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
The blue paint was crafted from a plant that only grows/grew? in Britain.
teft@piefed.social 4 hours ago The dye is made from woad. It grows all over Europe and Asia.
maltasoron@sopuli.xyz 11 hours ago
I’ve had modern steel spearhead bend during a re-enactment fight because I hit a plate really hard. I just bent it back in shape and continued. So I guess it doesn’t necessarily mean they had bad swords.
Maultasche@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
And helmets, so good, the Romans copied them