Oh, everyone cool throughout history used to do that. Excalibur, for example. It meant you were somebody if you could say, "Excalibur slew thee!" Unless of course, you mean that they all stand around naming their swords when they should have done it BEFORE the battle :D
Yeah, I remember not liking that poem much. Every verse gets repeated at least once, and people spend all their time hacking bits off other people, letting blood fountain up like a geyser, etc. Which is fine when there's a plot besides gore for gore's sake. But there really isn't, except Christians are great and dying, and Saracens are evil and dying.
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Date: 2006-04-13 07:30 am (UTC)Oh, everyone cool throughout history used to do that. Excalibur, for example. It meant you were somebody if you could say, "Excalibur slew thee!"
Unless of course, you mean that they all stand around naming their swords when they should have done it BEFORE the battle :D
Yeah, I remember not liking that poem much. Every verse gets repeated at least once, and people spend all their time hacking bits off other people, letting blood fountain up like a geyser, etc. Which is fine when there's a plot besides gore for gore's sake. But there really isn't, except Christians are great and dying, and Saracens are evil and dying.