• @derfunkatron
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    The Latin translates to “the word became flesh,” which is pretty damn metal to put on a sword used for decapitation.

    Edit: I just noticed that the inscription reads et verbum caro facum est instead of et verbum caro factum est. Not sure if this was a mistake or abbreviation, but I think the actual inscription would read “the word burns flesh”?

    I’m basically Brian from the Latin lesson scene in the Life of Brian, so if anyone has an actual grasp of Latin grammar, please correct me.

    • @PugJesusOPM
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      105 days ago

      Romanes eunt domus!

      • @[email protected]
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        “Whaaat? People called Romanes they walk the home?”
        (It’s been a while since I’ve watched it with the English original audio)

    • @mrfriki
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      I don’t know much about Latin but Verbum is another word for God.

      • @derfunkatron
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        85 days ago

        Yeah, this phrase specifically deals with the incarnation of Christ and it’s typically capitalized in English as “the Word.”

  • @drhugsymcfur
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    I wondered if the prisoner’s stance in the engraving was normal for a sword execution, it seemed like it would be more efficient for everyone to place your neck on a backstop like the chained log. With the backstop you wouldn’t have to worry about your flopping body absorbing any of the executioner’s swing energy.

    So to wikipedia I went, and based on the images in that article both of the prisoners are shown either standing or kneeling rather than resting their necks on a backstop. Ouch.

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/Beheading_Fac_simile_of_a_Miniature_on_Wood_in_the_Cosmographie_Universelle_of_Munster_in_folio_Basle_1552.png

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/Scharfrichterschwert-ffm002.jpg

    • teft
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      The french form of beheading was to have them kneel upright during a beheading instead of putting their neck on a block.

      It’s how Anne Boleyn was decapitated by the swordsman from Calais.

  • @Imhotep
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    interesting how it’s only meant to behead (I suppose). there’s no pointy end, like a big butter knife

    • @[email protected]
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      They usually were not pointy and heavier than regular swords which made it easier to chop off body parts.

  • @zzx
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    35 days ago

    Terminus Est

  • MedicsOfAnarchy
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    55 days ago

    Would it be worthwhile to run a q-tip through the engraved parts and collect DNA? Just for science?

    • @Gradually_Adjusting
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      Are you Rick Sanchez gathering a team for a high profile heist?

      • @lemonmelon
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        25 days ago

        You son of a bitch, I’m in.

  • @Imhotep
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    45 days ago

    congrats on graduating beheading school, son ! we bought you a cool sword as a present

    • @PugJesusOPM
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      One of my favorite stories about executioners is the French executioner Capeluche training the man who was assigned to kill HIM so he’d get it right. One clean chop - it would be terrible to have a botched execution where you linger in agony while some amateur hacks at your half-severed neck!

    • @[email protected]
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      15 days ago

      AfaIk, being wheeled was usually or often part of a multiple death penalty, i.e. the delinquent was hung and probably quartered before the wheeling.

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        I think you got your order reversed. Wheeling was, if done “skillfully” 🤢, generally not lethal. The person would have their limbs broken to be put in the wheel so they can suffer very publicly for all to see. And only then they’d be hung and quartered, with the quarters displayed at various points to serve as further “deterrent”.