Attached is a picture of a copy of Mjölnir, Thor’s hammer I made for a man to give to his son for his 18th birthday. ‘I too have made a small meteorite weapon. The entire story can be found here.’ Andy the Mad Monk, meanwhile, has actually made a meteorite hammer. So real use of meteoric iron, but no magical powers. Groneman, who passionately wanted to revive traditional krismaking, but ended a suicide. The legend was created by the rather sad 19th c romantic Dr. Many late krisses have been forged with a fraction of high-nickel meteoric iron.This was not primarily done for magical reasons, but to achieve a superior finish of the blade, after etching the blade with acid. Such a kris need only be pointed at someone to kill. One of the reasons for this is the legend that iron from the 1749 Prambanan meteorite was used in their manufacture. the Inughuit) or (b) because there was the thrill of carrying around something that had fallen from the skies?Ģ4 July 2014: JKM writes Indonesian Kris/Keris have in Dutch folklore been imbued with magical powers. Were blades made from meteorite iron (a) because this was the only source of iron (e.g. Who could resist slipping a story about meteoric iron through that gap? Where does this prime bit of cobblers come from? Well, in part doubtless the desire to deify a great American hero, but also in part because Bowie’s knife maker, James Black, used to make his blades in an exceptionally secretive fashion.
In other words, the forger would not have known to call it a meteorite. However, it seems inherently unlikely, not least because it is not clear that the knife was made before the existence of meteorites had been accepted by science in the very early nineteenth century. This is impossible to demonstrate as no one is sure whether the original knife survives (there are several contenders). According to rumour, and it would be interesting to see how far back this rumour could be traced (I’m guessing the 1990s), Jim Bowie’s famous Bowie knife was made of meteorite iron. ‘ With help from his friend Jake Keen - an expert on ancient metal-making techniques - the author dug up 81kg of ore and smelted it in the grounds of his house, using a makeshift kiln built from clay and hay and fuelled with damp sheep manure.’ But British fantasy writer, Terry Pratchett, went one further and forged a sword, which included meteorite iron (‘thunderbolt iron’), when he was knighted by the Queen in 2010. There are several modern companies that make vanity knives (and watches and statues) from meteorite iron. In a world without wood and where only bone could be used to cut, a meteorite weapon must have been quite something.Ĥ) Terry Pratchett. The iron from the Cape York fall supplied much of Arctic America through much of the previous millennium: chunks and artifacts made from the Cape York falls had passed from hand to hand deep into what is today Canada. At some point in the eighteenth century an Inughuit made a lance from the remains of the Cape York meteorite, a blade that has come to rest in the British museum. Note that at this date there was still a consensus in the west that ‘stones’ could not fall from the skies! If Jahangir had boasted about his find, then any ‘educated’ western visitor would have rolled their eyes.ģ) Canadian lance. What is particularly interesting about this blade is that the meteorite from which it is made is reported as falling: the Emperor Jahangir ordered the knife to be created from the core of the meteorite. There is at the Smithsonian a gold/meteorite knife from among the Mughals.
Tut liked the heavens and had a necklace made from a comet impact.Ģ) Early modern Indian knife. The other though was made of iron (bottom) and puzzled Egytologists for some time (they looked for a Hittite connection, as the Egyptians were not making iron at this date) until it was realised that the iron came from a meteorite. One was made of gold (top) and was not good for much.
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