[kj] The Lightbringer (No Answers and OT)

[Neil Perry]

Apart from the 'arsenals of God' bit, which I found on
wikipedia. Although as wikipedia is open to sabotage
by the general public, that could be bollocks.


--- Jpwhkj at aol.com wrote:

> Do you just happen to know these things?
> 
> 
> 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
> 
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