[combat_boots]

OK. I’ll go there. In the eastern corner. Inside the sacred mosque.

You bring up a good point about steel, though. I have always admired Damascene steel.

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[muawiyah]

Magic or special swords and knives always seem to have some kind of meteoritic origin. Even Jim Bowie's "Bowie Knife" was supposedly made by the Damascene method ~ complete with nanowires and nanotubes ~ just like you might find in a meteorite.

The experts employed by National Geographic in an article concerning the old Damascene swords concluded that the nano-structures probably gave the steel greater resiliancy.

King Arthur had a famous sword and Joanne d'Arc found some ancient swords hidden behind the fireplace of an old building ~ they were considered rather impressive.

The main Wiki piece on the Bowie Knife passes on the thought that some have had that it resembled a pukko (a Finnish knife) in certain characteristics but they point out that a pukko is much smaller than the Bowie.

You can look up Sa'ami knife and discover the stuorra niibi which is remarkably similar to the pukko but much more like a machete in size!

There are good reasons why Bowie would copy the stuorra niibi if he'd ever seen it in action ~ and it's likely he had plenty of opportunity since it was commonly seen in the numerous Sa'ami dominated settlements on the frontier.