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Sent: Sunday, 23 March, 2003 04:47
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Subject: [M-R] comparative swords
medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion
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Dear
Stephen,
I remember this story from my Ladybird book of
Richard the Lionheart. The crusader is Richard himself (cutting a bar of iron,
as far as I remember), the infidel is Saladin. Even the author of the
Ladybird book pointed out that the story can hardly be authentic, since the
two leaders never met. It sounds Victorian or slightly earlier. Could it be
Sir Walter Scott's The Talisman? Of course, there may be a similar motif in
some earlier story, I can't guarantee there isn't, but this would probably be
the one your father-in-law is thinking of.
Lena Wahlgren-Smith
Stephen Allen
wrote:
>I was
trying to remember the details of the wonderful
story about
the
>crusader who confronts the infidel leader and demonstrates
his
power by
>spliting a bock of something with his iron sword.
His
opposite then throws a
>piece of silk in the air which is severed
by his razor
sharp steel blade as
>it floats
down.
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