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desolateheaven t1_j0dbfgz wrote

A good sword could be passed down from father to son, or gifted to someone in exchange for favours, or buried with a notable warrior. Many Viking weapons did double duty as humble farm implements, sailing tack etc and thus were recycled rather than inherited. The Vikings did not have particularly high-tech/super-efficient weaponry that would have represented a major investment and frequently lost, abandoned, or cannibalised their own kit. They failed abysmally as archers for example, though they tried it.

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lostsailorlivefree t1_j0d2yxb wrote

I kinda “got” something, after being mystified for years on the giant Nazca pictoglyphs. After learning there were small ones, 12’ easily viewed just standing there, someone said “our gods might like this, we’re pretty stoked, they might be too!”. So they basically enlarged a few just by imagining and… there ya go. The big mystery being “why so big and only viewable by air”. Well, they just made small into big.

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