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mee_eep

Sword Quenching

Oct 12, 2016 20:57

Medieval swords were 'quenched' aka cooled by a number of interesting methods - included wine, honey, mead, urine, and just about any other organic liquid imaginable ( Read more... )

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charisstoma October 13 2016, 01:11:57 UTC

*snickering* First there was no mpreg and then there was mpreg. Now there is looking up of esoteric knowledge. *looks innocent*

http://charisstoma.livejournal.com/1167845.html "The Quenching of Iron."

mee_eep October 13 2016, 15:03:25 UTC

yes, yes, you are not so innocent, you are leading me astray!

charisstoma October 15 2016, 15:29:59 UTC

^grins* There's so much fun stuff out there.

frogs_of_war October 21 2016, 18:11:48 UTC

Now I'm sure people weren't as picky about odors back then, but can you imagine the smell? A big old tub of urine (needs to be as deep as the iron is long), just sitting there waiting to be used and the smell as the heat of the iron boils some away. Like the worst outhouse you can imagine.

mee_eep October 22 2016, 11:19:38 UTC

Yee gods. *holding nose*

The one the program showed seemed to be narrow and deep but practicality suggests a tub would be more common.