The Sword From Heaven. The Sword From Heaven. An Inquiry into Joan of Arc's Sword, Found at the Church of. St. Catherine de Fierbois. By Lance Bernard. Copyright . Lance Bernard. Alberto Way, #1. 2Los Gatos, CA 9. Introduction. The judges peered intently at the prisoner before them. I think I remember there was in my letter the remark that I should. They had heard all about. Chinon. It was a deadly game played between two. Even her judges had heard the stories. Maybe all of. France had heard the tale. She knew that Saint Catherine would not object to. They had heard from. Armagnac government that the witch had seen it. As soon as it was found, the. Priests of the Church rubbed it, and the rust fell off at once without effort. The Priests of Fierbois. Tours, of another; one was of crimson. I had a third made of leather, very strong. I always bore the sword of. Fierbois from the time I had it up to my departure from Saint- Denis, after the. Paris. She wasn't quite sure what her surname might. Jacques D'Arc. I should. I cared very much for this sword, because. Church of Saint Catherine, whom I love so much. But now the questions were becoming. Besides, she could easily. Undeterred, they continued. After. all, hadn't she taken a crossbow bolt to her shoulder during the Battle of. Orleans? And hadn't one pierced her thigh outside of Paris? Given these two. events, anyone would have wished for better armor. But the judges were more. Writers: Curt Allen, Nico Mastorakis, Amritraj Entertainment Inc., Metro Film Corporation, Omega Entertainment.It was no secret. Armagnac blacksmith. Some said that the sword had once belonged to. Charles Martel; other said that God Himself had sent it to earth. Some said. that both were true. They continued with their interrogation, . The word 'barbarian' comes into English from Medieval Latin barbarinus, from Latin barbaria, from Latin barbarus, from the ancient Greek word. The word is onomatopeic, the bar-bar representing the impression of random hubbub. My brothers have all. I know, and the rest, which are worth. Being fascinated with swords, I eventually wanted a replica to. I scoured the internet looking for a dealer who might be. Demon Sword made it all the way to number 80 on IGN's Top 100 NES games of all time. Check out who made it to number 1! Barbarian: The Ultimate Warrior is a video game first released for Commodore 64 personal computers in 1987; the title was developed and published by Palace Software, and ported to other computers in the following months. Not all swords should be as sharp as a razor -- TRUE The sword’s intended purpose is always the guide to use -- thrusting swords are not intended for cutting, so some may not even have an edge at all, just a well-defined and. Although I could find replicas of swords belonging to. Charlemagne, Henry V, the Black Prince, King Arthur, and even Xena the Warrior. Princess, I was unable to find anything purporting to be Joan's legendary. Finding nothing, I began to mull the possibility of having one custom. I began some research. As my interest in the Maid deepened, it did. While it is true that some images exist, such as the one found on the. Why waste time over. Nevertheless, in quiet moments I. As I thought about it some more I began to see that we. And there is quite a bit of circumstantial evidence to be. The end result of all this is that I commissioned the building of a sword. Fierbois sword. This paper will review the. These decisions were based upon such considerations. Why did Joan's voices lead her to this particular sword? Who had originally owned it? What was the composition of the blade? What did the crosses look like? What were the sword's probable design and physical characteristics? Admittedly, much of the thought process behind the building of this sword is. Some of my hypotheses. However, we must keep in mind that we are dealing with. Joan of Arc who lived one of history's most extraordinary lives. Given the. numerous documented improbabilities surrounding the Maid of Orleans, one more. My eventual conclusions, I will admit, are imminently assailable. I make no. assertion that the somewhat expensive concept sword that now sits on a rack in. But until such time as more. The Sword of Joan of Arc: The Evidence. Joan's reputation as the potential savior of France had preceded her to. Orleans. She had not yet lifted even a finger towards raising the siege, yet. Had not Merlin predicted her coming? Had not she and. her pitifully few escorts spent two weeks traveling through enemy territory. Had she not convinced the weak and vacillating. Charles to give her an army, despite the objections of his powerful and. To the people of Orleans, any actions taken by her were of. When it became known that she had sent for a particular sword. Over time, the story spread throughout France. Although she was eventually acquitted of the charge of witchcraft. The above testimony represents the only documented eyewitness account we. Joan of Arc's Fierbois sword. In fact, the sword is nowhere else. Condemnation Trial or her. Rehabilitation Trial. From what she tells us it had five crosses on it, and the. Outside of these two statements, we know nothing at. We do not know its length, its weight, the shape of its blade, or. We don't know what the design of. Were all of them on one. Actually, we don't know if the crosses were on the. To compound the confusion, early medieval historians writing within a. Joan's death provide us with alternate descriptions. Many have. described these . On the. other hand, we have to realize that Joan was not the only person in the world. Fierbois sword. Without a doubt it was also seen by members of. Charles' court, by his captains, by soldiers, even by ordinary townspeople. All. of them must, at one time or another, have mentioned the sword to friends who. Eventually, these eyewitness accounts must have. These. later descriptions undoubtedly may have amounted to little more than unfounded. During the early medieval period many blacksmiths added. But since it was not uncommon for a blade to be adorned. Joan's sword bore five . Our quest to create a concept replica of the Fierbois sword would be much. Joan stated that the blade contained an inscription known to be dear. For instance, there is a private collection that contains a medieval. IESUS+ inscribed on one side and. MARIA on the other. We also know that. As tempting as. it may be, we can dismiss this one as being Joan's sword since nowhere is it. Joan or by medieval historians – that the Fierbois sword. And I am sure that if the. But what we can pretty much tell for sure about the Fierbois sword is that. One major question therefore to be. Presumably, they also. If this is so, then why did they indicate this. No doubt they led the search to the Church of St. Catherine. because one of the voices allegedly belonged to this saint, and Joan had great. But why did her voices lead her to that particular sword and. More than one sword had been left there over the centuries. The. answer to this question would help us considerably in understanding what this. However, we don't need to believe in. Even if. Joan had seen this sword during a previous trip to the Church of St. Catherine. (as her accusers asserted and Joan denied), what would have interested her so. Clearly, there must have been something unusual about it. It could have had. A real knight, after all, offers to God the sword God had given him. In other words, he offers a true sword of battle, battered. Besides, other than the crosses, there is no mention. We also know from Joan's testimony that the priests of Tours presented her. Tours with one made. The ever - practical Joan, however, eschewed these in favor of. We would think that if the Fierbois. Instead, she simply would have hung it in her room encased in. On the other hand, if. Fierbois sword really was a battle sword, one that she intended to carry. One reason why her voices may have led her to this particular sword is that. We may never be certain as to who. Charles Martel (Charles the Hammer), grandfather of Charlemagne. Saracens at the Battle of Tours in 7. A. D., thus permanently. Muslim invasion of Europe. This legend has become so prevalent that. Fierbois was his. For. instance, the Catholic Encyclopedia unabashedly states, . One is. that Charles Martel had founded the church of St. Catherine de Fierbois, and. God would. choose to save France. The other is that he had left it there as a votive. Tours. Although Joan and her contemporaries were almost certainly aware of the. Martel and this church, we would certainly have. Condemnation. or Rehabilitation Trial. But it didn't; in fact, there isn't even a specific. Fierbois sword itself anywhere in the transcript of the. Rehabilitation Trial. Bonnie Wheeler speculates that its original owner was, . Besides, there is no recorded instance of Joan ever having mentioned him. Although the sword may not have belonged to Boucicaut, it certainly may have. Crusader who had left it there as his votive offering, leading. Jerusalem crosses. For one thing, based on. Jerusalem. crosses (or even crosses, for that matter). So what we can thus far surmise is that the Fierbois sword was a battle. Crusader), or to. Charles Martel), who had left it in the. But there was something unusual about this one. Joan's angels to tell her about it, or. Joan to send for it. What could it have been? One possibility, as. Charles Martel. The other possibility may have had to do with the. We can be relatively certain is that there was something unusual about the. For one thing, we know from Joan's testimony. We hear nothing about the use of. Likewise, we do not. The fact that Joan even. One gleans. from her statement that it was unusual, maybe even miraculous. This leads us to. So we are then left with the. I posed this question to the Joan of Arc mailing list hosted by Southern. Methodist University and soon received a reply from Napoleon J. Bourdeau who is. on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin. He offered two possibilities. His plausible possibility was that. His fantastic possibility was that. As to the former possibility, Professor Bourdeau. As for the later suggestion, despite the fact. Japanese swords. For one thing, I. For another, it caused to fall into place a whole bunch of. Why did Joan's ? There are four classifications of meteorites, one. Jim Hrisoulas of Salamander Armory in Las Vegas, Nevada. He replied in an email that he sometimes uses meteorite in. Many people mistakenly call pattern- welded blades . Although. the pattern welding process was resurrected and popularized by the foundries of. Syria, it actually originated early in the Iron Age, before people had the. Back then iron was a rare and valuable commodity that. So to make something as large as a sword. Sometimes they'd use naturally occurring iron alloys, such as found in. Sometimes. these rods would be welded in parallel and sometimes they'd be twisted for. Whether or not meteorite was actually used, the employment of. Barbarians of Lemuria: Your Opinion. I've read through Barbarians of Lemuria (not the Legendary Edition, though), and I still see folks very enthusiastic about this game. Those of you who have played or GM'd it, what's your opinion of the system?- What does it do well?- What does it not do so well?- How does combat usually go?- Mechanically, how different can characters be from one another?- What's your opinion of the magic system?- Is it worth $2. How easy is it to use with other settings? Interested in any and all opinions, good and bad. There's a ton written on this game out there, but I'm curious to see what the worthies on this board have to say in regards to its merits.
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