Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-82.99.27.18-20130906134041

Shouldn't it mention that his name is a reference to the Viking sword "ulfberht".

Trivia about the sword (+ULFBERH+T); it's made from a high quality steel with very litle slag requiring melting the iron under an temperature of 1700C which is unheard of in europe until the industrial revolution, it's also has a very well defined and even distribution of carbon also suggesting that it was melted under an high temperature. Only 171 of them have been found and quite a lot of fakes (with slightly different spelling), made out of an inferior steel suggesting that they were widely recognized at the time. Many modern day sword experts suggest that they isn't just better than the katana but also more advanced.  