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History is so yesterday. After all, there’s no reason to learn about it when we can do nothing and watch it repeat itself. Still, I oftentimes get sucked into watching documentaries and other fanciful re-creations of people and what they did in the past. The other day, for instance, I saw an episode of Nova called “The Secrets of the Viking Sword.” Evidently, over a thousand years ago, a certain privileged few Vikings wielded their era’s ultimate weapon: the Ulfberht sword. Made from a very high-carbon steel, known as crucible steel, the blades of these swords bent rather than broke when stuck in an enemy’s shield, were longer but just as light as contemporary swords, and were able to nicely penetrate the chain mail on an unfortunate opponent’s chest. In a medieval version of branding, the swords had the name Ulfberht inlaid in large letters along the blade near the hilt.