Secrets of the Viking Sword

I’m not really into swords, but I do find metallurgy and bladesmithing fascinating. I’ve posted a Nova documentary before on katanas, Secrets of the Samurai Sword, that is equally watchable.

Secrets of the Samurai Sword

Not that I necessarily have a huge hard-on for samurai swords, but I am interested in bladesmithing. I admittedly don’t know that much about the subject, but after seeing this the first time a few years back, my curiosity was piqued as to whether these techniques could be used to make a kukri or a parang or some other non-katana blade. If I had oodles of money, I would look into something like that.

Great documentary.