Secrets of the Viking Sword
Mar 12, 2015 01:16:41 #
Mar 12, 2015 02:27:02 #
Mar 12, 2015 03:48:56 #
Very interesting and educational.
I used to watch Nova and Nat Geo or similar things all the time when I was still teaching. Not to mention the great numbers of books I read.
I may not have needed so much knowledge to teach Jr & Sr High but it enabled me to judge the information in the text books and add little stories and touches to my lessons that I believe helped bring the subject of history alive for the receptive students.
A side effect was my hobby of searching for mistakes and correcting them as part of my lectures. (Text books contain a lot of mistakes at the Jr & Sr High level.)
I used to watch Nova and Nat Geo or similar things all the time when I was still teaching. Not to mention the great numbers of books I read.
I may not have needed so much knowledge to teach Jr & Sr High but it enabled me to judge the information in the text books and add little stories and touches to my lessons that I believe helped bring the subject of history alive for the receptive students.
A side effect was my hobby of searching for mistakes and correcting them as part of my lectures. (Text books contain a lot of mistakes at the Jr & Sr High level.)
Mar 12, 2015 16:20:00 #
Mar 13, 2015 08:48:32 #
St3v3M wrote:
Secrets of the Viking Sword
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/secrets-viking-sword.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/secrets-viking-sword.html
Looks interesting. I'll watch the rest of it later.
I saw a similar show about the making of a samurai sword. The metal was heated and folded many many times. That was the key to its success.
Mar 13, 2015 11:04:40 #
OldEarl
Loc: Northeast Kansas
robertjerl wrote:
Very interesting and educational. br I used to wat... (show quote)
My wife reports her students in junior college get upset when she corrects the text. My management students never read the text so what they got from me was it.
This is a really interesting piece on a particular sword builder who used crucible steel in the Viking age (roughly 780-1030). I would guess that there were probably less than 300 made.
I generally like NOVA and NAT GEO. The History Channel has more errors than I find acceptable and BBC is inconsistent.
Mar 13, 2015 16:10:46 #
Thanks for the very interesting link.
My wife and I will be touring Norway this May and cruising from Norway to Iceland. Great background info.
My wife and I will be touring Norway this May and cruising from Norway to Iceland. Great background info.
Mar 13, 2015 16:58:33 #
OldEarl wrote:
My wife reports her students in junior college get upset when she corrects the text. My management students never read the text so what they got from me was it.
This is a really interesting piece on a particular sword builder who used crucible steel in the Viking age (roughly 780-1030). I would guess that there were probably less than 300 made.
I generally like NOVA and NAT GEO. The History Channel has more errors than I find acceptable and BBC is inconsistent.
This is a really interesting piece on a particular sword builder who used crucible steel in the Viking age (roughly 780-1030). I would guess that there were probably less than 300 made.
I generally like NOVA and NAT GEO. The History Channel has more errors than I find acceptable and BBC is inconsistent.
Problem is that in the last 20 yrs or so a lot of the specials are "Revised History" and have a very heavy slant. Well what goes around comes around, the slant will swing back the other way one of these decades.
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