the number of swords with incredibly hyperspecific powers in Arthuriana really delights me:
Then they girded on a sword: it was such a sword that any woman in labor — even if her life hung in the balance — would be delivered of her child at once if struck on the head with the flat of the naked blade.
— First Percival Continuation, Nigel Bryant translation
this is just a sword that Gawain is using for normal quest stuff btw


















