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German executioner's sword with engraving, 17th century AD (media.kbin.social)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] psmgx 4 points 6 months ago

Huh so the sword that Sevarian uses in Book for the New Sun, which has a flat top, has a basis in reality

[–] Casualsnow13 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

If anyone is interested in the subject, I recommend checking out The Faithful Executioner by Joel F. Harrington. It's the biography of a 16th century German executioner with lots of cultural info and details from his own journal.

[–] PassingDuchy 3 points 6 months ago

Really interesting subject thank you for the recommendation!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Do we have a translation for the engraving? The closest I'm able to get anything out of is Latin(using online translators, and trying the V-for-U swap in places), which is coming out to "And the world is flesh", which I'm assuming is wrong(I also have no clue what I'm doing).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

"And the word became flesh", part of Christian scripture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verbum_caro_factum_est