Oddbean new post about login | logout I gotta saw, at this point in time, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is starting to look like a pretty good basis for a system of government.
@0b8cb427 Some Celtic tribes apparently practiced combined ceremonies of ritual and profane background: in times of peace, blades into the pond (only few knew, which pond and where precisely). If times got bad enough, there had to be a blacksmith ready to reforge them, once borne back from "the other world".