any folklorists out there know why exactly the idea of a magic sword is so Big in european, particularly germanic/norse, mythology?
@Thaminga why is it always swords, though, rather than daggers or spears or something? or even the native germanic seax?
@Felthry 🤷🏼♀️
@Felthry I don't know, but an interesting thing is that I know they used to do bronze sword depositions in rivers here in the bronze age and IIRC also in Scandinavian areas, but I don't remember if the two are in the same timeframe.
I suppose my point is, if the sword = magic thing stems from back then (and that requires the idea surviving for centuries) the idea may predate written records by quite a while.
@Felthry sword big, shiny, at one point newfangled invention, and very useful in up until recently perpetually wartorn subcontinent