[Theoria]

[MayflowerMadam]

Cool!

[Sacajaweau]

That is sooooo cool. Ahhhh....Camelot!!

[Texas Fossil]

I was blocked from viewing the NYT without signing up. I refuse.

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VIDEO: Diver discovers sword dating back to Crusades on Mediterranean seabed

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-19/diver-discovers-sword-dating-back-to-crusades/13592732

[Openurmind]

Looks like he lost the fight. Those look like fossilized guts next to it...

[moovova]

Oh, and...in before the Monty Python “Holy Grail” comments.

[Tennessee Nana]

PING

[Pilsner]

In before the first “I know how the knight who lost it felt, ‘cause I lost my rifle in the water too.” comment.

[Texas Fossil]

Thanks for post

More:

Diver Discovers 900-Year-Old Crusader Sword Off Israel’s Coast
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/diver-finds-crusader-sword-off-israels-coast-180978884/

Israeli diver discovers 900-year-old crusader sword
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SamkKzVc-hM

[freedumb2003]

It was in an underwater stone. He is now the True King of England.

[central_va]

[rlmorel]

Wow!

[Natty Bumppo@frontier.net]

Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.

[pepsi_junkie]

When I think of the 3rd crusade I think of the battle to retake Jaffa from Saladin. Richard the Lionhearted took a small force there by sea hoping to reinforce the fort but when he arrived Saladin's banners were already flying over the city. Richard and his men dispaired until one guy ran out on the battlements and leaped into the sea. The knights fished him out and it turned out he was a priest that was desperate to tell Richard that a small force of Christian knights was still holding out in the hear of the fortress.

Supposedly Richard stood up, said a few stirring words, and leaped off the ship to storm the shore alone and without armor. His stunned men all quickly grabbed a sword and jumped in after him and somehow they defeated a far larger muslim force and retook the city. Crazy.

I don't know if Richard was a good king (actually I do, he wasn't) but he was one hell of a battle commander. Ridiculous reading what this dude could do on a battlefield.

[VicVanleeuwenhoek]

When they found the remains of some of the victims from Pompey after the mt.vesuvius eruption they said you could tell one of the bodies was a roman soldier because the arm bones in his right arm were bigger. It came from continuous use of a sword.
I’m sure men throughout history who were trained to fight
with swords and other handheld weapons had bigger , stronger sword arms.

[rdl6989]

That thing is huge, it must be very heavy and hard to swing at somebody.