Macurich!!!
Let it be known he was a good sword and had been through a lot

Started as a Viking With inscriptions..Tinker made

Then polished with a hilt change to be a hand and a half medieval sword

He broke then and I had him remade at my first pennsic for a handful of gems to be re born a Viking sword by Scott Wilson at darkwood armoury..

More love..more heavy use and cutting...

He broke after.. a friend of mine re forged the tang and fitted a new better Viking hilt out of bronze..shining in the sun...a scabbard and belt were made..new..ready for battle!

Then he broke with..... her attentions

O Macurich. My brother was still not done ... We was remade to look like a broken sword.. Hilt re done.. Blade re polished handle and scabbard custom done

Like a phoenix he rose for one final time
A scion amongst his peers until
Today... This day he broke

The final death

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A tinker made

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rebirth to a medieval sword

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Darkwood Viking

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custom viking with bronze after the tang was drawn red hot

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made to look like a broken sword after the blade finally went

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handle and new scabbard custom made

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the break.....

:eek: Eeeeyow! I can't help but feel a sympothetic clench in the nardledangers...

But I did enjoy your poem you wrote in eulogy telling its story. May Macurich live on in Sword-Valhalla, the halls of the bladed-brave!

I would like to see every break of it!

Old good swords in the past would have gone through such reborn many times like yours did.

Don't give up. It can become a broad knife!

I will not say do not weep for not all tears are an evil, but do not overmourn for it had a good and full life which is as much as any of us can hope for.

Years back, I read about about a Renaissance Italian dagger which turned out to be a pattern-welded Viking blade under metallurgical analysis. It had been broken and reshaped so many times but the underlying metal structure was still there. Looks like your sword took a trip through time almost the opposite way. Sorry to hear about a trusty tool breaking but I'm glad that sword gave you years of good service. Maybe you can retire it by framing it up or displaying it in some other way. Thanks for sharing the pics with us.

First a Viking sword, then reborn as a medieval sword after its blade snapped. So that's how the story of the Macurich goes.
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Hello Shahril,
you may want to re read the post

Lance,

That's what you get for calling a she a he. :D

'Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.'

Thanks, Jon

J

Lol

:)