@SiriusArchivist@robertsepehr@GBPolitcs You may well be right and thank you for posting that article.
However, it seems to support the proposition. The lack of adornment on all other things would suggest they blinged out swords was not a common practice if practiced at all.
@TheDariaBlues If you can still find them, I highly recommend the work of Lynn Abbey. The Brazen Gambit, The Rise and Fall of a Dragon King, and, Cinnabar Shadows. I did read them when I was quite young so they may no longer hold up, but at the time they were amazing.
"[Ned Kelly] is a version of the social bandit, the young man who feels forced to rebel against an oppressive state and does so boldly, with success for himself and his social grouping. He then dies betrayed and noble, and usually in captivity. Of this kind are Robin Hood, Wlliam Tell, Salvatore Giuliano, the Chinese heroes of the Water Margin stories. It is an international structure..." — Stephen Knight (1990) The Selling of the Australian Mind
@ckymmrmnb7@LisaJaneSpencer Okay, I know this is going to comes as a shock and may shatter your entire sense of reality, but you should probably look up the word satire.
@LisaJaneSpencer Well. This is going to result in further calm and reasonable discussion.
What is...fucking amazing is that society is so fucked up that people have missed that this is satire.
Understandable really.