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Lethosos
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Aug-31-09, 09:14 AM (EDT) |
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3. "RE: Name that sword!"
In response to message #1
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What's interesting is that you're purposely distinguishing between the two--but then again, "Curtana" and its sister swords forged by Ogier the Dane, have some funky naming overall. Charlemagne had a thing for female names for swords--which is why Durandal has a feminine name out there. (But then again, if you used The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen version of "Roland", then things get weirder. Be my guest.) Oh, and Curtana isn't blunted, but purposely broken; I believe it was the tip that was removed, but one has to look at the blade to know for sure. (It sits with the Crown Jewels of England right now.) I suspect that Cortana herself would be only slightly interested in her namesake blade; I know she was originally named for Curtana, as that name is but one of a few attributed to Edward the Confessor's sword. The fact that the Aesir blades are named as such in the UFverse shows that the naming of the Dane blades can be chalked up to either Charlemagne's whimsy to circumstance. |
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