The Perfect Sword Audiobook Libro.fm

The story of the Bamburgh Swordone of the finest swords ever forged

In 2000 archaeologist Paul Gething rediscovered a sword An unprepossessing length of rusty metal it had been left in a suitcase for thirty years But Paul had a suspicion that the sword had more to tell than appeared so he sent it for specialist tests When the results came back he realized that what he had in his possession was possibly the finest and certainly the most complex sword ever made which had been forged in seventhcentury Northumberland by an anonymous swordsmith

This is the story of the Bamburgh Swordof how and why it was made who made it and what it meant to the warriors and kings who wielded it over three centuries It is also the remarkable story of the archaeologists and swordsmiths who found studied and attempted to recreate the weapon using only the materials and technologies available to the original smith