Mycenaean Era Bronze Naue II Swords vs Auto Hood!

Hi all, Drond here. Hi all, this is Eldgrim. And we're here with Neil Burridge's Naui 2 Bronze Age swords. They're beautiful swords, could have been used during the time of the Iliad, where he describes it, or actually not, back to the time of the Trojan War, the Iliad describes it about 600 years later or so. Something like that, right. But anyway, this design has been around forever. It's basically like a Spatha design. That's why I'm standing here with the Viking Age sword, a late century Viking sword. This is still a Spatha design. I mean, it's a descendant. This is its ancestor. But this one was used over 700 years. And one of the reasons it was used that long was... It fulfilled all your needs. It was a universal tool. You could cut, you could thrust, and it was really designed for both of those purposes, to cut and thrust. But I don't think we see any of the kind of cranking or, you know, these kinds of motions, I think because... I think the reason they got it so tight, I think he's right in my mind, it was because the bronze bent easily. It's not like the later century swords that can hold up to that type of cast out blow, where you throw it out and let the blade weight carry it. And what ends up happening is if you do this kind of motion with it, you get a little less reach for the short swords anyway. It allows you to come back for the thrust, but it causes a drawing style. It's, you know, pretty much a drawing style cut, if you're cutting. You could use it to hack with, but I think it kind of, you know, it could damage the blade. So I think they were probably already putting a failsafe or something in there. By doing this disc pummel on the back, you can't really get it in the hand that way. I've tried all different kinds of things, like Roland had suggested, but it just didn't quite... You can let them flail out like that, but I think the thrust would be this way, is what we're saying. We're gonna try some of those powerful thrusts, very much like you're thrusting with a dart or a dagger. That's right, and that's why we're back with the Dodge hood. It's 20 gauge approximately. We had a suggestion saying, would these go through? We've done it with the bronze spears, the middle-aged bronze spears, but we haven't done it with this yet. So let's get started and see what happens. Hell yeah, let's do it. Yeah. I would say that is a nice penetration through one millimeter steel, and I hit right next to the barrier. I just didn't quite hit it. I'm lucky I didn't. Otherwise, I've been trying to go through double metal, which had been two millimeters, which it's not really like going through two millimeters, because they're actually one right behind the other. But I think if you were wearing that with gambeson, took a cloth below it, and it was only one millimeter bronze, I think that you could be in trouble, depending on how hardened the bronze was. We got almost four inches of penetration. Good. Yeah, about four, about four inches of penetration. That's quite impressive. Oh, check it out. It's that throwing body mechanic. Oh, pretty. You can actually see where it went clean through, and if you count the fiberglass insulation in there, it's some kind of a gambeson. It went through that as well. Pretty interesting. It still had plenty of speed and force as it was traveling through. The shape of these blades, since they're shaped like this, make them more likely to pierce than having the ridge down the center of these spears that reinforce them. The reason why is because they're more likely to bend, possibly, but these are hammered hard and properly, but they're more streamlined, like later century thrusting points. So that's one of the reasons we're having so much success today. They don't have this big triangular cross section in the center, and you're trying to pierce the actual metal. So that's impressive, very impressive, and it doesn't look like it did hardly anything to the edge. I don't believe it did. I mean, you could touch it up a hair, but still, that's beautiful. And it appears I'm just not getting the same force with this. I've tried two times now. I don't want to just keep trying over and over again, but it's nowhere as devastating as getting four inches. I might be not getting enough power. Maybe I could snap. I know people are going to tell me that, but just watch the mechanics real quick so you see what I'm saying. I mean, this tried to get the power by bringing this over and then leaning into it in this manner, and this sword is not designed to stick straight out. Watch the way it handles. Even if you try to use it that way, it's very awkward. I don't see how we're going to be able to experiment with that and make this like a thrust under a cut or whatever fencing. It's not going to happen. And the most power you're going to get, I assume, is probably this way, coming in this way, maybe some stuff like that, straight in if you're coming into a shoulder or something, you could do that. But that, you're trying to hit somebody like that. If you're going to do that, I would suggest, which I don't think they did that with these, is coming in that way.