Was I wrong to oppose the betrothal? No. You are trying to protect her. Perhaps I should have accepted it all with good grace. I was married young and survived. Lady, your husband wished you dead. Maybe that’s what royal husbands do. Maybe that’s what I should have been preparing Aelfwynn for.— Aethelflaed + Aldhelm
It took days, yet as the hammering and cooling and heating went on I saw how the four twisted rods of soft iron, which were now all melded into the harder steel, had been smoothed into wondrous patterns, repetitive curling patterns that made flat, smoky wisps in the blade. In some lights you could not see the patterns, but in the dusk, or when, in winter, you breathed on the blade, they showed.
Serpent breath, Brida called the patterns, and I decided to give the sword that name; Serpent-Breath.
Bernard Cornwell - The Last Kingdom
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