[kj] The Lightbringer (Answers and ANSWERS)

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Neil Perry <neilfperry at btinternet.com> writes:

>A morning star is also a vicious medieval weapon, a
>spiked ball (sometimes on a chain) attached to a club
>used to smash a person's skull open. The rough
>peasant's version (as opposed to more professionally
>made military versions) would be made from wood cut
>locally, for which reason forests were often known as
>"arsenals of God". Go figure.
>N